He was born in Ankara, Türkiye. He completed his primary, secondary, and high school education in Ankara. In 2006, he graduated from the Department of Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Language, History and Geography at Ankara University. In 2009, he received his Master’s degree from the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema at the Institute of Social Sciences of Ankara University with his thesis titled “Historiography of Turkish Cinema: Nijat Özön.” Between 2015 and 2016, he conducted academic research in the United Kingdom at University of Westminster with a scholarship from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK). During this period, under the supervision of an academic advisor, he carried out a research project on the institutional structure of the British Film Institute (BFI). In 2016, he received his PhD from the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema at the Institute of Social Sciences of Istanbul University with his doctoral dissertation titled “An Evaluation of Turkish Cinema (1960–1980) within the Framework of Film Historiography: Agâh Özgüç.” He worked at Namık Kemal University between 2010 and 2013. From 2013 to 2018, he served at the Provincial Directorate of Social Studies and Projects under the Kocaeli Governorship. In 2018, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Cinema and Television in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Bitlis Eren University. In 2021, he was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema at the same university. In 2026, he received the title of Professor and continues his academic career at the same institution. His academic research interests include Turkish Cinema, World Cinema, Film Historiography, Film Criticism, Film Theories, and Film Analysis. He has published various academic studies and reviews in these fields.

Fernando Jiménez Sánchez (Almería, 1963) is a professor of political science at the University of Murcia, a member of the European Union’s network of anti-corruption experts, a scientific adviser and evaluator for the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), and sits on the advisory boards of the Hay Derecho Foundation and the Spanish chapter of Transparency International.

He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences at the Juan March Institute for Studies and Research, where he completed his doctoral thesis. He has been a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

He is the author of the book Detrás del escándalo político (1995), published in Tusquets’ essay series, and of numerous academic publications analysing various aspects of corruption and, conversely, the quality of governance (the political dynamics surrounding scandals, the electoral cost of corruption, its economic costs, as well as the causes and consequences of this phenomenon).

Özgür SELVİ has been the head of department of Audiovisual Techniques and Media Production with the title of Professor at Kırıkkale Vocational High School of Kırıkkale University. He was graduated from the  Public Relations and Publicity department of communication faculty, Selcuk University in 2005. He completed his master’s degree at Public Relations programme of Social Sciences Institute in Selcuk University and he also got the Ph.D diploma from the programme of Public Relations and Publicty at the same university. He worked as a lecturer in Public Relations program of Vocational School of Social Sciences, Harran University. Research fields are the followings; Popular Culture, Corporate Reputation, Corporate Communications, Customer Relationship Management and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Riza Rasouli was born in 1961 in East Azerbaijan province in Iran and traveled to Turkey in 1980 to continue his studies and He graduated from the Institute of public Administration for Turkey and the Middle East (TODAiE) in 1985 and entered the Master of Public Administration program at Ghazi University in 1988, after graduating from the aforementioned university, he entered the PhD program in Public Administration and Political Science at Ankara University in 1992, He returned to his home country with PhD degree and became as a faculty member at Payam Noor University in Tehran. He became an associate professor in 2011 and became a professor in 2015.

Sam seientific activities

1-      Human Resurce management, peyame noor university publication 2011

2-      Strategic management , peyame noor university publication 2017

3-      Policy making theory's peyame noor university publication 2020

4-      Governance as leadership: reframing the work of nonprofit boards: chait richord, translated to Persian,2009

5-      Strategic Human Resurce management . theory and practice (Graeme salman, john story and john billsberry 2005) translated to Persian, 2017

6-      Democracy identity and foreign policy in Turkey hogemony through transformation (Keymun, Emin Fuot and Sebnem Gumuscu, 2014  translated to Persian, 2019

7-      Strategic management in the public sector (joyce, paul 2015) translated to Persian, 2022

8-      Yornin endisesi (Gencay saylan; 2020) translated to Persian, 2026

Anar Gafarov was born on July 1, 1979, in Baku, Azerbaijan. He graduated from Secondary School No. 177 in Baku in 1997. Between 1997 and 2002, he pursued double majors at the Faculty of Theology of Baku State University, completing undergraduate and graduate studies in Theology and Arabic Language Teaching with a thesis entitled “Traditional Turkic Religious Beliefs and Their Manifestations in Contemporary Azerbaijan.” He graduated with a diploma of outstanding achievement.

From 2002 to 2004, he completed a master’s degree at the Institute of Social Sciences of Marmara University (Republic of Türkiye), Department of Islamic Philosophy. Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mustafa Çağrıcı, he successfully completed his master’s thesis titled “Rāghib al-Isfahānī’s Conception of Human Nature and Ethics.” Between 2005 and 2009, Gafarov pursued doctoral studies at the Institute of Social Sciences of Ankara University, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mehmet Bayraktar, he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation entitled “Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Moral Philosophy,” earning the title of Doctor of Philosophy.

During his undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral studies, Anar Gafarov actively participated in social responsibility initiatives, knowledge competitions, and civilizational projects, receiving several awards. These include an Honor Certificate (2001) awarded by the Rectorate of Baku State University for success in knowledge competitions; the Successful Article Author Award (2007) in a scientific article competition titled “Heydar Aliyev and the Contemporary Azerbaijani State,” organized by the Azerbaijani Consulate General in Istanbul; and the Teacher of the Year Award (2012) presented by the President of the Directorate of Religious Affairs of Türkiye at the TDV Baku Turkish High School.

In 2009, Gafarov briefly served as a regional advisor and as an expert in foreign relations and press security at the State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Between 2010 and 2014, he taught courses in philosophy and the history of education at Azerbaijan Slavic University, Khazar University, and Azerbaijan State University of Economics. Additionally, from 2010 to 2012, he delivered seminars and lectures at the Faculty of Theology of Midwestern Lombard University in the United States and at relevant departments of other universities on topics such as “True Islam and Muslim Identity” and “The Concept of the Perfect Human Being in Islamic Thought.”

In 2013, Gafarov contributed as a coordinator and reviewer to the special issue (No. 22) of the Journal of Social Sciences of Türkiye, dedicated to the memory of National Leader Heydar Aliyev. In 2012, the international symposium titled “Middle Eastern Realities in the Context of Scientific Research: Legal, Political, Socio-Economic, and Psychological Dimensions” was held as part of a project prepared by Anar Gafarov and his team with the support of the Middle East Research Center of Türkiye. Within the scope of projects to which he provided scholarly contributions, international conferences titled “The Genocide of Azerbaijanis in Archival Documents” and “The Armenian Question in Azerbaijani and Turkish Literature” were organized in Baku on March 29–30, 2013, with the support of the Azerbaijan and Turkey Writers’ Unions, during which he engaged in both academic and practical activities.

Furthermore, with the support of the Ministry of Family and Social Policies of Türkiye, Gafarov implemented projects focused on “Our Dreams, Goals, and Values” and organized training seminars for educators working in children’s homes within the framework of social responsibility projects. With the support of the ILKE (Science, Culture, and Education) Research Center, he made scholarly contributions to workshops held in Istanbul in 2015–2016 titled “Islamic Moral Thought Project I: The Source of Morality” and “Islamic Moral Thought Project II: Conscience,” presenting studies entitled “The Source of Moral Propositions in Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī” and “The Concept of Conscience in Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.” Both studies were published as co-authored books by Nobel Publishing.

Between 2009 and 2010, Gafarov worked as a researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences; from 2010 to 2014, at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology; from 2014 to 2017, as a contracted faculty member at the Faculty of Theology of Bülent Ecevit University (Türkiye); from 2017 to 2021, as an associate researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences; and from 2018 to 2021, as an associate professor at the Azerbaijan Institute of Theology. Since 2021, he has been serving as the Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the Azerbaijan Institute of Theology.

Throughout his academic career in domestic and international universities, Anar Gafarov has taught courses in Islamic philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of religion, kalām (Islamic theology), contemporary Islamic thought, history of religions, history of Islamic sects, psychology of religion, sociology of religion, history of Islamic civilization, history of education, religious education, and Islamic ethics. His primary research interests include Islamic philosophy, Islamic political thought, moral philosophy, the relationship between politics and ethics, medieval philosophy, and moral psychology.

The author of 16 single- and co-authored books, Gafarov has also served as the scientific editor of nine books and the editor of two books published in Azerbaijan and Türkiye. He has translated ten books from Arabic, Persian, English, and Turkish in the fields of philosophy, moral philosophy, Sufism, and Islamic ethics. He has published 25 articles in national and international academic journals and has contributed with his research to numerous national and international conferences and symposia. In addition, he has carried out 11 projects in Azerbaijan and Türkiye in the areas of social responsibility and modern scientific research methods and serves on the editorial boards of eight national and international academic journals.

I completed my undergraduate studies in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul University. I continued my graduate education at the same university in the field of Eurasian Studies and wrote my thesis titled “Azerbaijani Turks Living in Iran and Their Impact on Azerbaijan–Iran Relations.”

I later earned a second master’s degree in International Economics and Global Trade from the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, where I completed my thesis on “The Impact of Talent Management on Employee Productivity.”

I received my PhD in Political Science from St. Clements University with my dissertation titled “The Shared and Diverging Political Dynamics of Poland and Turkey in the Context of European Union Integration.” I also served as an Associate Professor in political science at the same university. I am currently teaching courses in Political Science and International Relations at Onbeş Kasım Cyprus University.

I am the author of four books and one book chapter and have published various scholarly articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals.

She graduated from the Computer Programming Department of Boğaziçi University in 1996. Between 2000 and 2009, she worked as a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) specialist at the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. In 2010, she completed her master’s degree in the Urban Systems and Transportation Management program at Bahçeşehir University with high honors, and in 2017, she earned her PhD with high honors from Marmara University in the Department of Local Governments, Subdivision of Local Administrations and Decentralization.

Between 2014 and 2015, she served as a researcher at the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA), and between 2016 and 2017, she worked as the Director of the Scientific Research Unit at Yeşilay General Headquarters. In 2018, she began her appointment as a faculty member in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the Akçakoca Bey Faculty of Political Sciences, Düzce University. She currently serves as the Head of the Public Policy Division.

Between 15 November 2021 and 2 February 2022, she conducted research at Southern University and A&M College in the United States on “IoT Technologies in Smart Cities: Privacy and Security Principles.” On 11 August 2022, she was awarded the title of Associate Professor in the field of Local Governments, Urban and Environmental Policies.

Her research interests include local governments, urban and environmental policies, public policies, metropolitan governance, urban systems, smart cities,, and migration policies.

Lisans Selçuk Unv. : 1993 yüksek lisan Yuzuncu Yil Unv. 2005; doktora Dicle Unv. 2016, Doçent 2022

Lisans ve yüksek lisansını Dicle Üniversitesi’nde tamamladı, doktorasını ise Ankara Üniversitesi’nde yaptı. İnsan hakları ve demokrasi sorunları, Türkiye siyaseti ve Kürt meselesine dair çalışmalarını Dicle Üniversite Hukuk Fakültesi’nde sürdürmektedir. 

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