Murat ÇEMREK received his bachelor's degree in Political Science and Public Administration from METU, his master's and doctorate degrees in Political Science and Public Administration from Bilkent University, and his post-doctoral studies at Budapest College: Institute of Higher Specialized Studies (Hungary). He taught at Bilkent, Ataturk Alatoo (Kyrgyzstan), Selçuk, El Farabi (Kazakhstan) Universities and Police Academy at various levels from undergraduate to doctoral. He was the Founding Director of the Eurasian Research Institute of Ahmet Yesevi International University (Kazakhstan). Çemrek, who was the Head of Department at Selçuk University, is currently the Head of Department, Director of Erol Güngör Turkish Diaspora Research and Application Center and Coordinator of University Erasmus Program at Necmettin Erbakan University. Çemrek, who has written articles, reviews and book chapters in many national and international journals in Turkish and English, is on the board of editors, referees and scientific advisors of many academic journals.

Prof. Dr. Emre İşeri, Yaşar Üniversitesi, İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü, İzmir, Türkiye.

Ali Onur Özçelik is a Professor and full-time Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Eskişehir Osmangazi University. He holds an MA in Transatlantic Relations from the University of Birmingham and a PhD in Politics from the University of Sheffield. His earlier work has focused on Europeanization and multi-level governance, particularly in the context of Turkish subnational administrations.
Professor Özçelik’s research interests encompass the politics of non-state actors, transnational social movements, diplomacy practiced by non-state and partially recognized actors, and the European Union’s Neighborhood Policy. In recent years, his scholarship has expanded to include themes such as globalization, the transformation of world order, and the rise of transactionalism in international relations.
He is the co-editor of three academic volumes: The World Community and the Arab Spring (Palgrave Macmillan), EU Conditionality in Turkey: When Does It Work? When Does It Fail? (Rowman & Littlefield), and Reconfiguring EU Peripheries: Political Elites, Contestation and Geopolitical Shifts (Helsinki University Press). Professor Özçelik has also been actively involved in several EU- and UN-funded research and youth projects, reflecting his sustained engagement with transnational governance and global policy processes.

Prof. Dr. F. Didem Ekinci completed her B.A in 1999 at Hacettepe University, and her M.A and Ph.D. on International Relations at İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University in 2002 and 2009, respectively. She has been full-time faculty member since 2009 and head of Political Science and International Relations Department since 2021. Her courses and publications mostly cover foreign policy analysis, IR theories, politics in the Balkans the Caucasus, Russian foreign policy, conflict resolution, among others. Dr. Ekinci has served as Director of Çankaya University Research and Application Center for Atatürk Principles and Revolution History for five years. She is the author of the book Russia and the Balkans after the Cold War. Dr. Ekinci’s foreign language proficiencies: English – Professional, French - C1; Russian - C2; German - A2.

Was born in Trabzon/Turkiye. Undergraduate degree between the years of 1994-1999, in Near East University in TRNC, department of International Relations, studied as state scholarship student. Master degree in Karadeniz Technical University between the years of 1999-2002, department of International Relations. Master thesis was : “Dynamics of Turkish-EU Relations”. PhD Degree in Karadeniz Technical University between the years of 2007-2013, department of History. PhD thesis was; “Turkish-US Relations and Admiral L. Bristol Reports”. Assist Prof. in Kayseri Erciyes University department of International Relations, 2013-1206 and in Karadeniz Technical University department of International Relations since the beginning of 2016. Assoc. Prof. Dr. in Karadeniz Technical University Department of International Relations between 2017-2022. Director Black Sea Research Institute since Aug., 2022. Professor in the same university since January 2023. Working topics are: Turkish Foreign Policy, Arab Nationalism and Turkey, Turkish Straits and Turkish-US Relations. Also worked on British Papers regarding Arabian Peninsula and Turkish war of National Struggle.