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Barin Kayaoglu an Associate Professor of World History at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS), and a non-resident fellow in the Strategic Foresight Initiative at the Middle East Institute (MEI) in Washington. The opinions expressed in these articles are personal and not shared by AUIS or MEI. He most recently published the article “Turkey-United States Relations” for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. You can follow him at www.barinkayaoglu.com, on Facebook, and on YouTube. On Twitter: @barinkayaoglu