Turkish education official to speak on ‘asymmetric state of war’
11/06/2001
NEW PALTZ -- The State University of New York at New Paltz will host a lecture by Kemal Guruz, president of the Turkish Council of Higher Education, at noon Thursday in Lecture Center 104.
Guruz is a Fulbright Scholar and a member of several international organizations, including the UNESCO Turkish National Commission, the NATO Science Committee, and the Russian Academy of Technological Sciences and Scientific Board of the International Center. His talk will focus on the asymmetric state of war, or the use of all means at one's disposal including deceit and duplicity to benefit from an adversary's weaknesses and destroy the adversary.
Much of his talk will be based on his perceptions of the current world situation as an experienced educator within a predominately Islamic country.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Located in the heart of a dynamic college town, 90 minutes from metropolitan New York City, the State University of New York at New Paltz is a highly selective college of about 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
One of the most well-regarded public colleges in the nation, New Paltz delivers an extraordinary number of majors in Business, Liberal Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Fine and Performing Arts and Education.
New Paltz embraces its culture as a community where talented and independent minded people from around the world create close personal links with real scholars and artists who love to teach.
