Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute, USA. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics, and Turkish nationalism; publishing in scholarly journals and major international print media, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and The Atlantic. He has been a regular columnist for Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey's oldest and most influential English-language paper, and a contributor to CNN's Global Public Square blog. He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, NPR, BBC, and CNN-Turk. His latest book, Erdogan's Empire, was published in September 2019 by I.B. Tauris.