Adnan Oktay, Professor Dr., entered the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Istanbul University in 1996. He graduated from this department in 2000. He began his master's degree with a thesis in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Institute of Social Sciences, Istanbul University, graduating with a thesis titled "Social, Cultural and Historical Texture in the Diwan of İshak Çelebi from Skopje." In 2009, he began working as a research assistant in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Faculty of Art, Mardin Artuklu University. In the fall of 2009, he began his doctoral program in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Institute of Educational Sciences, Dicle University, graduating with a thesis titled "Nabi's Munshaat: Analysis-Text." He currently serves as a faculty member in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Faculty of Art, Mardin Artuklu University. adnanoktay@artuklu.edu.tr

Asst. Prof. Dr. Mitat Çekici enrolled in the Department of Persian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters, Erzurum Atatürk University in 2006 and graduated in 2010. He continued his education in the Master’s program with thesis at the Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Persian Language and Literature at the same university, from which he graduated in 2012. Between 2014 and 2018, as an official scholarship holder of the Ministry of National Education, he pursued his doctoral studies at the University of Tehran (Iran) in the Department of Persian Language and Literature on behalf of Mardin Artuklu University. Since 2019, he has been serving as a faculty member in the Department of Persian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters, Mardin Artuklu University.

Hakan Gülerce completed his master's degree at Istanbul University, Department of Social Structure-Social Change in 2012 with his thesis titled “The Role of Editing in the Development of Social Sciences and a Sociological Study on Academic Journal Editors”. He graduated from the Department of Sociology of the same university in 2017 with his doctoral thesis titled “The Reproduction of Christianity in the Encounter with Modernity”. In 2018, Gülerce started to work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harran University and continued her postdoctoral studies in the fields of migration, social cohesion, youth studies, modernity and religion.

Gülerce received the title of associate professor in the fields of Sociology of Migration and Sociology of Religion in 2022. Gülerce, who is the director of Harran University Migration Policies Application and Research Center, has been and continues to be the coordinator of various projects on migration, forced migration, Syrians in Turkey and social cohesion in this center.

Gülerce, who served as the secretary general of the International Federation of Social Science Organizations between 2012-2019, assumed the presidency between 2019-2023.  He is currently a board member of the same organization.

Deniz Işıker Bedir, Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi Psikoloji Bölümünde Dr. Öğr. Üyesi olarak çalışmaktadır. Lisans eğitimini Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi Psikoloji Bölümünde, Yüksek Lisans eğitimini İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Kültürel İncelemeler alanında, Doktora eğitimini ise İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa Adli Tıp Enstitüsü Sosyal Bilimler Anabilim Dalında “Yaşlılıkta İstismar, İhmal ve Başa Çıkma Stratejileri” başlıklı teziyle tamamlamıştır. Yaşlılık, yaşlı istismarı, adli psikoloji ve travma gibi alanlarda çalışmalar yapmaktadır.
Deniz Işıker Bedir’in 28 Şubat’ın Psikolojik Etkileri ve Yaşlı İstismarı ve İhmali adlı iki kitabı bulunmaktadır. Ayrıca Psikoloji Tarihi başlıklı kitabın editörlüğünü üstlenmiştir. 

Caner Yelbaşı is an Assistant Professor at the Mardin Artuklu University. He holds a MA and PhD degree from the Departments of Middle Eastern Studies and History in SOAS, University of London. His research interests are the Late Ottoman Period, Russian Colonialism in the North Caucasus, Circassian Studies, Nation and Nation-state ideology, Para-militarism, and Modern Turkish History. His articles have appeared in Middle Eastern Studies and the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. He is the author of “The Circassians of Turkey War, Violence and Nationalism from the Ottomans to Atatürk” (I.B. TAURIS, 2019). In his book, he focused on the political and paramilitary activities of the Circassian community in Turkey in the very late Ottoman and early Republican periods. Currently, he is working on Russian colonialism in the North Caucasus in the 19th century and its impact on the Black Sea Region. 

1980 yılında Mardin’de doğdu. Klasik Türk edebiyatı alanında doktora, Kürdoloji alanında da doçentlik derecesi aldı. Resmi görevli olarak bulunduğu Mısır ve Ürdün’ün çeşitli üniversitelerinde Türkoloji alanında ders verdi. 2015 yılından bu yana Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi’nde çalışmalarına devam eden Öztürk, burada çeşitli idari ve akademik görevlerde bulundu.
Çeşitli gazete ve dergilerde edebiyat, kültür ve tarih içerikli yazıları yayımlandı. Birçok ulusal ve uluslararası projelerde görev aldı. Sendikacılık faaliyetlerinin yanı sıra çeşitli STK’larda aktif görevlerde bulundu. Hâlen çeşitli dernek ve vakıflarda insanî yardım çalışmalarına yardım gönüllüsü olarak katılmaktadır. Türk edebiyatı, Kürt edebiyatı ve karşılaştırmalı edebiyat alanlarının yanı sıra yabancılara Türkçe öğretimi konularında yayımlanmış birçok kitap, bildiri ve makaleleri bulunmaktadır.

1980 yılında Mardin’de doğdu. Klasik Türk edebiyatı alanında doktora, Kürdoloji alanında da doçentlik derecesi aldı. Resmi görevli olarak bulunduğu Mısır ve Ürdün’ün çeşitli üniversitelerinde Türkoloji alanında ders verdi. 2015 yılından bu yana Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi’nde çalışmalarına devam eden Öztürk, burada çeşitli idari ve akademik görevlerde bulundu.
Çeşitli gazete ve dergilerde edebiyat, kültür ve tarih içerikli yazıları yayımlandı. Birçok ulusal ve uluslararası projelerde görev aldı. Sendikacılık faaliyetlerinin yanı sıra çeşitli STK’larda aktif görevlerde bulundu. Hâlen çeşitli dernek ve vakıflarda insanî yardım çalışmalarına yardım gönüllüsü olarak katılmaktadır. Türk edebiyatı, Kürt edebiyatı ve karşılaştırmalı edebiyat alanlarının yanı sıra yabancılara Türkçe öğretimi konularında yayımlanmış birçok kitap, bildiri ve makaleleri bulunmaktadır.

Hakan Gülerce completed his master's degree at Istanbul University, Department of Social Structure-Social Change in 2012 with his thesis titled “The Role of Editing in the Development of Social Sciences and a Sociological Study on Academic Journal Editors”. He graduated from the Department of Sociology of the same university in 2017 with his doctoral thesis titled “The Reproduction of Christianity in the Encounter with Modernity”. In 2018, Gülerce started to work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harran University and continued her postdoctoral studies in the fields of migration, social cohesion, youth studies, modernity and religion.

Gülerce received the title of associate professor in the fields of Sociology of Migration and Sociology of Religion in 2022. Gülerce, who is the director of Harran University Migration Policies Application and Research Center, has been and continues to be the coordinator of various projects on migration, forced migration, Syrians in Turkey and social cohesion in this center.

Gülerce, who served as the secretary general of the International Federation of Social Science Organizations between 2012-2019, assumed the presidency between 2019-2023.  He is currently a board member of the same organization.

He completed his undergraduate education at the Department of Psychology at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University. He completed his master's degree at the Department of Philosophy at İstanbul 29 Mayıs University. He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies at the Department of Philosophy at Istanbul University. He continues his research in the fields of logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Mitat Çekici enrolled in the Department of Persian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters, Erzurum Atatürk University in 2006 and graduated in 2010. He continued his education in the Master’s program with thesis at the Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Persian Language and Literature at the same university, from which he graduated in 2012. Between 2014 and 2018, as an official scholarship holder of the Ministry of National Education, he pursued his doctoral studies at the University of Tehran (Iran) in the Department of Persian Language and Literature on behalf of Mardin Artuklu University. Since 2019, he has been serving as a faculty member in the Department of Persian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters, Mardin Artuklu University.