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Bayram Balci
Bayram Balci is a researcher at CERI Sciences Po, Paris. He holds degrees in political science and Islamic studies and was Director of the French Institute for Central Asian Studies, Uzbekistan (2006-10). A visiting scholar at Carnegie, Washington, DC (2011 and 2014), Balci’s research focuses on Islam in Turkey, Central Asia, and the Caucasus.