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<DIV align=justify><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">Dear Colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=justify><FONT face="Palatino Linotype"><BR>Please forward this
message to any scholar, graduate student, or email list that you think is
related, so that we can build and strengthen our scholarly community.<BR><BR>We
would like to invite you to join the Turkish International Studies Association
(TISA). The Turkish International Studies Association (TISA), a partner of
International Studies Association (ISA), is a network of scholars working on
Turkey. TISA brings together international relations and political science
scholars from all specialties and regions within the academe in order to expand
awareness and understanding of international politics.<BR><BR>We would like to
reach out to as many colleagues as possible so that people working on similar
themes and topics could relate to one another and find ease in submitting their
individual papers as a panel to prominent conventions as American Political
Science Association and International Studies Association.<BR><BR>The
Turkish-ISA will have a certain quota of panels from the ISA and we will utilize
this to bring together scholars working on Turkey. We have a quota for panels
for Chicago ISA Annual Convention 2007. We are looking for paper proposals for
ISA annual convention. If you would like to submit for ISA, we encourage you to
send your paper title and abstract Until June 25 so that we can organize our
panels.<BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV align=justify><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">Contact: <A
href="mailto:halit.tagma@asu.edu">halit.tagma@asu.edu</A> <BR>Visit our
official website at : </FONT><A href="http://www.turkishisa.org/"><FONT
face="Palatino Linotype">http://www.turkishisa.org/</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face="Palatino Linotype">and become a member of our TISA listserv.<BR><BR>We
will also be promoting graduate student's academic efforts and to this end we
will hold a 'best graduate student paper' contest that will be awarded to a
graduate student that presented in that year's ISA or APSA
convention.<BR><BR>Please join our Yahoogroup to share and learn about Turkish
political scientists and International Relations scholars. To become a member to
our<BR>listserv visit: </FONT><A
href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TurkishISA/"><FONT
face="Palatino Linotype">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TurkishISA/</FONT></A> <FONT
face="Palatino Linotype">visit our website: </FONT><A
href="http://www.turkishisa.org"><FONT
face="Palatino Linotype">http://www.turkishisa.org</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
face="Palatino Linotype">Thank you,<BR>Turkish International Studies
Association<BR>Executive Committee<BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.turkishisa.org/"><FONT
face="Palatino Linotype">http://www.turkishisa.org/</FONT></A><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>