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.

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.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emrah Ayhan has been teaching various courses related to his research interests in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Anadolu University (Eskişehir/Turkey) since December 2021. He graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration (in English) in 2010. Later, he graduated from the “Political Economy of the European Integration” Master's Program (in English) at the Berlin School of Economics and Law in Berlin, Germany in 2013. He completed his PhD (in English) in October 2019 at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration (in English), where he also worked as a Research Assistant in a period of 3 years. His research priorities include digital public administration (e.g. e-government, artificial intelligence, smart cities and big data), resilient cities, governance (civil society and political participation), comparative studies (political systems and governments), organizational theories, migration (refugee and migrant rights), strategic management (institutional capacity and performance and human resources). He has published many articles, book chapters, projects and presented conference papers in his research area.

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