Journal Boards

Editor-in-Chief

İbrahim Demir
Prof. Dr. İbrahim DEMİR ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT ÜNİVERSİTESİ, ULUSLARARASI İLİŞKİLER VE STRATEJİK ARAŞTIRMALAR ENSTİTÜSÜ Web
Agricultural Economics, Health Economy, Industrial Economy, Political Economy

Associate Editor

Default avatar
Assoc. Prof. Md Nazmul ISLAM ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Political Science, International Politics, International Relations

International Relations Section Editors

Bayram Sinkaya
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bayram SİNKAYA Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Web
Contemporary History of Middle East, Contemporary History of Iran, Regional Studies, International Politics, Political Science
Serhan Ünal
Asst. Prof. Dr. Serhan ÜNAL MİLLİ SAVUNMA ÜNİVERSİTESİ Web
International Relations (Other), International Politics

Political Science and Public Administration Section Editors

Comparative Political Institutions, Constitutional and Political Theories
Default avatar
Asst. Prof. Dr. Murat KAÇER ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Turkish Political Life

Security Studies Section Editor(s)

Humanitarian Aid Studies Section Editor

Selman Salim Kesgin
Dr. Selman Salim KESGİN TÜRKİYE KIZILAY DERNEĞİ
Disaster and Emergency Management, International Migration, Public Administration, Public Policy

Law Section Editor

Ebru Demir
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ebru DEMİR ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT ÜNİVERSİTESİ, HUKUK FAKÜLTESİ
Environmental Law, Public International Law, Domestic Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law

Language Editor (Turkish)

Default avatar
Dr. Nurdan BENLİ ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Old Turkic Language (Orhon, Uyghur, Karahan)

Language Editor (English)

Default avatar
Dr. Instructor Ahmet ÇOLAK ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT ÜNİVERSİTESİ, YABANCI DİLLER YÜKSEKOKULU

Ahmet Çolak, PhD in Instructional Technology, University of South Florida, is an EFL Instructor and instructional technology program coordinator in Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, and worked as an adjunct instructor at MEF University. His interests include online education, designing and developing courses and language learning motivation.

Readiness in Education

Editor Assistants

Default avatar
Res. Assist. Gülşen YILMAZ MUNZUR ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Organisation and Management Theory, Organisational Behaviour, Strategy
Muhammed Oruç
Res. Assist. Muhammed ORUÇ ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT ÜNİVERSİTESİ, ULUSLARARASI İLİŞKİLER VE STRATEJİK ARAŞTIRMALAR ENSTİTÜSÜ
Security Studies, Regional Studies
Default avatar
Res. Assist. Elmas BENER OTACI Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Uluslararası İlişkiler ve Stratejiler Enstitüsü
Welfare Economics

Editorial Board

Murat Önder
Prof. Dr. Murat ÖNDER BOĞAZİÇİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ Web
Public Administration
Default avatar
Prof. Dr. Fatih Cemil ÖZBUĞDAY ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT ÜNİVERSİTESİ Web
Industrial Economy, Environmental Economy, Microeconomics
Ali Polat
Prof. Dr. Ali POLAT YILDIRIM BEYAZIT ÜNİVERSİTESİ Web
Ali Polat is currently a professor at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University. He graduated from Istanbul University, College of Political Sciences in 1997. Dr. Polat completed his MA in 1999 and Ph.D. in 2007, both from Marmara University, Institute of Banking and Insurance, Istanbul, Turkey. During his education, he worked for Faisal Finance, Family Finance and Turkiye Finance, all of which are participation banks licenced in Turkey. In 2009, Prof. Polat began teaching at King Saud University, College of Business Administration, Finance Department and continued until 2014. He held several public positions from 2014 to 2018. He also taught at the University of Hail, CBA, Economics and Finance Department during the 2019-2020 academic year. Prof. Polat research interests include International Trade and Finance, Islamic Banking, Banking Operations and Islamic Economics.

Islamic Economy, Foreign Trade, Foreign Trade Policy, Islamic Finance
Kenan Aslanlı
Asst. Prof. Dr. Kenan ASLANLI ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT UNIVERSITY

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Kenan Aslanlı, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi (AYBÜ), Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü öğretim üyesidir. 2018-2023 yıllarında İran Araştırmaları Merkezinde (İRAM) enerji ve politik ekonomi konularında uzman olarak çalışmalar yapmıştır. 2016 yılında Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi, Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümünde (İngilizce) başladığı doktora programını Rusya’nın dış enerji politikası ve enerji anlaşmazlıklarını konu alan tezini 2022 yılında savunarak tamamladı ve doktor (PhD) unvanı aldı. Bremen Üniversitesi Doğu Avrupa Araştırmaları Merkezinde (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa) araştırmacı (Almanya), Viyana BFI Uygulamalı Bilimler Üniversitesinde ise misafir öğretim görevlisi (Avusturya) olarak bulundu.

International Relations, Ecology, Sustainability and Energy
Default avatar
Asst. Prof. Dr. Adisa AVDİć KÜSMÜŞ ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
International Politics, Conflict Resolution in International Relations

Scientific Board

Emrah Ayhan
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emrah AYHAN ANADOLU ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İKTİSADİ VE İDARİ BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ Web
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emrah AYHAN graduated from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration (Program taught in English) at Middle East Technical University in 2010, Ankara, Türkiye. He then completed his master’s degree in 2013 at the Berlin School of Economics and Law in Germany, in the program “Political Economy of European Integration” (Program taught in English). In 2016, he began his doctoral studies at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration (Program taught in English), where he also worked as a Research Assistant. He completed his PhD in 2019, after only three years, with his dissertation entitled “Factors Explaining the Size and Organizational Performance of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)”.
His research priorities include digital public administration (e-government, artificial intelligence, smart cities, big data), governance (civil society and political participation), comparative studies (political systems and governments), organizational theories, migration (refugee and migrant rights), and strategic management (organizational capacity, performance, and human resources). He has published numerous articles, book chapters, and research projects, and has presented papers at international conferences. Currently, he has been serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Anadolu University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Eskişehir, Türkiye, since 2021. He teaches undergraduate as well as master’s (thesis and non-thesis), and PhD courses both in Turkish and English, not only at Anadolu University but also at international universities such as Sung Kyun Kwan University (Seoul, South Korea).
His academic work focuses on digital public administration, governance, comparative politics, organizational theory, migration, and strategic management. Within this scope, he has authored numerous national and international publications, carried out projects, and presented papers at scientific conferences. In 2025, his article, published in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (SCIE-Q1), made significant contributions to the sustainability and governance strategies of civil society organizations. Furthermore, his 2024 study, published in Facta Universitatis (SCIE-Q1), examined the selection of data conversion techniques in ranking small electric vans through the Probid method based on sensitivity-performance matching, offering interdisciplinary contributions to both public administration and engineering literature.
He has served as a consultant and evaluator in TÜBİTAK and ministry projects, and has also taken part in projects supported by the EU and UNDP. Due to his academic productivity, he has been consistently granted academic incentive awards every year since 2016.
Fluent in English and at a beginner level in German, Ayhan has studied, conducted research, and attended conferences in various countries. These multicultural experiences have provided him with a global perspective in his research.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emrah Ayhan continues to contribute significantly to the fields of public administration, civil society, and digital transformation both in Türkiye and internationally, through his academic research and applied projects.
Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour, Technology Management, Participation and Governance, Comparative Political Institutions, Public Administration, Migration, Asylum and Refugee Law
Default avatar
Prof. Dr. Hamit Emrah BERİŞ ANKARA HACI BAYRAM VELİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İKTİSADİ VE İDARİ BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ
Political Science, Political Movement
Omaır Anas
Asst. Prof. Dr. Omaır ANAS Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University

Omair Anas teaches International Relations at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University. He did his PhD on Transnational Arab Media Culture and the Arab Diaspora in Germany from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Freie University, Berlin, conducting extensive fieldwork on Arab communities in Berlin and other cities. He has contributed to many edited volumes and journals on the transnational Arab diaspora. Prior to joining Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University in 2018, he was a Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs in New Delhi from 2015-2018. His publications include edited volumes Turkey’s Asia Relations (Palgrave 2022) and India-Turkiye Relations: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (APAM Ankara 2023). He teaches Non-Western International Relations, Middle Eastern IR, Religion and Politics, Globalisation and IR, and International Security. And Asian Politics. He is fluent in Arabic, Turkish, and Hindi. He has widely published his opinions on the Middle East Eye, Indian Express, First Post, Daily Sabah, Financial Express, The Diplomat, The Wire, and Qantara. He can be reached at omairanas@hotmail.com

Middle East Studies, International Relations
Last Update Time: 6/25/25
Ulisa: Journal of International Studies is published by the ULİSA Institute.