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Mustafa Akyol

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Mustafa Akyol is a columnist for Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey’s foremost English-language daily, and a monthly opinion writer for the International New York Times. His articles have appeared in other major publications, including Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, American Interest, First Things, and Weekly Standard. He is the author of Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty (2011) and Rethinking The Kurdish Question: What Went Wrong? What Next? (2006). He received his bachelor and master’s degrees from Bosphorus University in Istanbul.
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