The Department of Middle Eastern Studies kindly invites all students, faculty members, and the general public to the international conference “Türkiye-Czechia Relations from Past to Present.” The conference will take place on Monday, March 30, starting at 10:00 a.m. in Room P104 of the main building of the Faculty of Arts (Náměstí Jana Palacha 1/2).

You can look forward to presentations by Czech and Turkish experts whose research focuses on the political, diplomatic, and economic aspects of mutual relations between Czechoslovakia (and the Czech Republic) and Turkey.

The following speakers will present their papers:

• Doç. Dr. Recep Arslan
  Turkish-Czech Relations during the Republican Era
• Dr. Göktuğ İpek
  Perspectives on Turkish-Czech Relations Between the Two World Wars (1923–1939), (İki Dünya Savaşı Arasında Türk-Çek İlişkilerine Bakış,1923–1939)
• Dr. Karolína Lahučká
  Two Republics in the post-Empire World: Czechoslovak-Turkish Relations in the journal Zahraniční politika (1918–1938)
• Dr. Petr Novák

  Economic relations between Czechoslovakia and Turkey in the years 1918–1926 (from the establishment of Czechoslovakia / the end of World War I to the establishment of diplomatic relations

• Prof Dr. Haluk Selvi
  Turkish-Czech Relations in the Turkish Diplomatic Records

We will publish the detailed program in the upcoming days.

The event is organized by the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey, and the Turkish Historical Society (Türk Tarih Kurumu).