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e-ISSN: 2718-0182
PUBLISHER: OZAN ÖRMECİ

UPA Strategic Affairs

Publication Model: Periodical Publication (March - September)

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Editor-in-chief

Ozan Ormeci
Prof. Dr. Ozan Ormeci
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi
Turkish Political Life, Turkish Foreign Policy, Comparative Political Movement, Political Science, European and Region Studies, International Relations, International Politics
Professor Ozan Örmeci was born in 1981 in Bornova, Izmir. His father’s family is from Senirkent, Isparta. He completed his primary education at Izmir Turk College (ITK) and received a middle school and lycée education at Izmir Saint-Joseph French College. He graduated from Bilkent University’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration (English) in 2004 as a high-honour student. In 2011, he earned a PhD degree from Bilkent University’s Political Science Department with his thesis entitled “Portrait of a Turkish Social Democrat: Ismail Cem”, under the supervision of Dr. Berrak Burçak, from a distinguished jury composed of Prof. Metin Heper, Prof. Ergun Özbudun, Prof. Ayşe Güneş Ayata, and Dr. Nur Bilge Criss. He worked as a Lecturer in Uşak University’s Public Administration Department between 2009 and 2012. Between October 2012 and January 2016, he worked as an Assistant Professor and headed the Department of Political Science and Public Administration (English) at Girne American University (GAU) in North Cyprus (TRNC). He then returned to Turkey (Türkiye) and served as a faculty member and department chair at various universities, including Beykent University (2016-18), Gedik University (2018-20), Istanbul Kent University (2020-23, 2024-25), and Istanbul Aydın University (2023-24). He became an Associate Professor in Political Science in 2018 and was appointed as a Full Professor at Istanbul Kent University for the first time in 2024. He has previously published many scientific books and articles in Turkey and abroad. He is the editor of some academic books specialising in Turkish Foreign Policy, including Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Millennium (Peter Lang, 2015), Mavi Elma: Türkiye-Avrupa İlişkileri (Gazi Kitabevi, 2016), Historical Examinations and Current Issues in Turkish-American Relations (Peter Lang, 2020), Turkish-French Relations: History, Present, and the Future (Springer, 2022), Cumhuriyet’in 100. Yılında Nasıl Bir Dış Politika? (Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık, 2023), Turkish-American Relations in the 21st Century (Lexington Books, 2024), Türkiye-Britain Relations: Two Hundred Years of an Intertwined Conflict and Cooperation (Lexington Books, 2024), Contemporary Turkish-Russian Relations in the 21st Century Global Geopolitics (TPLondon, 2025), and From Bosporus to Mount Fuji: Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations between Türkiye and Japan (Bloomsbury, 2026) and the author of Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri (Urzeni Yayıncılık, 2021), Türkiye-Fransa İlişkileri (Urzeni Yayıncılık, 2022), 2023 Turkish Elections in All Aspects (Peter Lang, 2023), İngiliz Jeopolitik Yaklaşımları ve Türk-İngiliz İlişkileri (Sarmal Kitabevi, 2025), and The Dynamics of Turkish Foreign Policy: Key Concepts and Strategic Approaches (Peter Lang, 2026). In addition, he wrote books in the Turkish language analysing the political system and foreign policy of countries, including the United States, the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, the European Union, and Japan. He can speak and write fluently in both French and English. Örmeci is also the Founding Coordinator of the International Policy Academy (UPA), the owner and editor-in-chief of the UPA Strategic Affairs academic journal, and an expert on European Studies at the BİLGESAM think-tank. His primary research interests include International Politics, Comparative Politics, Great Power Politics, Political Psychology, Turkish Political History, Leftist Movements in Turkey, and Turkish Foreign Policy. He is also a member of the Congress of Karşıyaka Sports Club (KSK) and a fan of Beşiktaş (BJK).

Editors

Ozan Ormeci
Prof. Dr. Ozan Ormeci
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi
Turkish Political Life, Turkish Foreign Policy, Comparative Political Movement, Political Science, European and Region Studies, International Relations, International Politics
Professor Ozan Örmeci was born in 1981 in Bornova, Izmir. His father’s family is from Senirkent, Isparta. He completed his primary education at Izmir Turk College (ITK) and received a middle school and lycée education at Izmir Saint-Joseph French College. He graduated from Bilkent University’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration (English) in 2004 as a high-honour student. In 2011, he earned a PhD degree from Bilkent University’s Political Science Department with his thesis entitled “Portrait of a Turkish Social Democrat: Ismail Cem”, under the supervision of Dr. Berrak Burçak, from a distinguished jury composed of Prof. Metin Heper, Prof. Ergun Özbudun, Prof. Ayşe Güneş Ayata, and Dr. Nur Bilge Criss. He worked as a Lecturer in Uşak University’s Public Administration Department between 2009 and 2012. Between October 2012 and January 2016, he worked as an Assistant Professor and headed the Department of Political Science and Public Administration (English) at Girne American University (GAU) in North Cyprus (TRNC). He then returned to Turkey (Türkiye) and served as a faculty member and department chair at various universities, including Beykent University (2016-18), Gedik University (2018-20), Istanbul Kent University (2020-23, 2024-25), and Istanbul Aydın University (2023-24). He became an Associate Professor in Political Science in 2018 and was appointed as a Full Professor at Istanbul Kent University for the first time in 2024. He has previously published many scientific books and articles in Turkey and abroad. He is the editor of some academic books specialising in Turkish Foreign Policy, including Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Millennium (Peter Lang, 2015), Mavi Elma: Türkiye-Avrupa İlişkileri (Gazi Kitabevi, 2016), Historical Examinations and Current Issues in Turkish-American Relations (Peter Lang, 2020), Turkish-French Relations: History, Present, and the Future (Springer, 2022), Cumhuriyet’in 100. Yılında Nasıl Bir Dış Politika? (Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık, 2023), Turkish-American Relations in the 21st Century (Lexington Books, 2024), Türkiye-Britain Relations: Two Hundred Years of an Intertwined Conflict and Cooperation (Lexington Books, 2024), Contemporary Turkish-Russian Relations in the 21st Century Global Geopolitics (TPLondon, 2025), and From Bosporus to Mount Fuji: Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations between Türkiye and Japan (Bloomsbury, 2026) and the author of Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri (Urzeni Yayıncılık, 2021), Türkiye-Fransa İlişkileri (Urzeni Yayıncılık, 2022), 2023 Turkish Elections in All Aspects (Peter Lang, 2023), İngiliz Jeopolitik Yaklaşımları ve Türk-İngiliz İlişkileri (Sarmal Kitabevi, 2025), and The Dynamics of Turkish Foreign Policy: Key Concepts and Strategic Approaches (Peter Lang, 2026). In addition, he wrote books in the Turkish language analysing the political system and foreign policy of countries, including the United States, the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, the European Union, and Japan. He can speak and write fluently in both French and English. Örmeci is also the Founding Coordinator of the International Policy Academy (UPA), the owner and editor-in-chief of the UPA Strategic Affairs academic journal, and an expert on European Studies at the BİLGESAM think-tank. His primary research interests include International Politics, Comparative Politics, Great Power Politics, Political Psychology, Turkish Political History, Leftist Movements in Turkey, and Turkish Foreign Policy. He is also a member of the Congress of Karşıyaka Sports Club (KSK) and a fan of Beşiktaş (BJK).
Serdar Çukur
Dr. Serdar Çukur
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi
Regional Studies, International Relations, International Law
Oğuzhan Göksel
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Oğuzhan Göksel
MARMARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Political Science, Turkish Foreign Policy, Political Economy Theory, International Relations Theories, Comparative Political Institutions, Middle East Studies, International Relations, Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Turkish Political Life

Dr. Oguzhan Goksel is Assistant Professor of Political Economy & IR at Marmara University, Faculty of Economics, Turkey. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of New Middle Eastern Studies (NMES) journal based in the UK. He completed his multi-disciplinary Ph.D. degree on Political Science and Political Economy at Durham University, UK in 2015. Goksel’s works have been published in various edited books and SSCI-indexed international peer-reviewed journals such as Mediterranean Politics, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and Turkish Studies. He is the co-editor of the books entitled "Türkiye-Britain Relations: Two Hundred Years of an Intertwined Conflict and Cooperation" (New York: Lexington Books, 2024) and "Turkey’s Relations with the Middle East: Political Encounters after the Arab Spring" (New York: Springer, 2018) and ". Goksel's main areas of research are modernisation and non-Western modernities, political economy of development, historical sociology, foreign policy analysis and comparative politics.

Cansu Arısoy Gedik
Asst. Prof. Dr. Cansu Arısoy Gedik
İSTANBUL KENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Sociology of Gender, Political Sociology, Communication Sociology, Entertainment Sociology, Communication Theories, Social Media Applications and Analysis, Political Advertising, Political Communication, Conflict Resolution in International Relations, Communication Studies
Teoman Ertuğrul Tulun
Dr. Teoman Ertuğrul Tulun
Avrasya İncelemeleri Merkezi
International Politics, International Migration, International Law, Political Sociology
DT
Data and Information Privacy
Eren Alper Yılmaz
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eren Alper Yılmaz
AYDIN ADNAN MENDERES ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Middle East Studies, European Union, Public Administration, International Migration, Turkish Foreign Policy
Seda Gözde Tokatlı
Asst. Prof. Dr. Seda Gözde Tokatlı
İzmir Demokrasi Üniversitesi
International Security, International Relations Theories, Globalisation, International Institutions

Küreselleşme , Göç, Uluslararası İlişkiler Kuramları, Uluslararası Kuruluşlar , Çin Dış Politikası, Amerikan Dış Politikası

Oğuzhan Manioğlu
Doctoral Oğuzhan Manioğlu
İstanbul Kent Üniversitesi
Comparative Political Institutions, Political Geography
Sina Kısacık
Asst. Prof. Dr. Sina Kısacık
Cyprus Aydın University Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences English International Relations Department
Conflict Resolution in International Relations, Politics in International Relations, International Security, Turkish Foreign Policy
AC
Political Science

Editorial Board/Editör Kurulu

Ozan Ormeci
Prof. Dr. Ozan Ormeci
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi
Turkish Political Life, Turkish Foreign Policy, Comparative Political Movement, Political Science, European and Region Studies, International Relations, International Politics
Professor Ozan Örmeci was born in 1981 in Bornova, Izmir. His father’s family is from Senirkent, Isparta. He completed his primary education at Izmir Turk College (ITK) and received a middle school and lycée education at Izmir Saint-Joseph French College. He graduated from Bilkent University’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration (English) in 2004 as a high-honour student. In 2011, he earned a PhD degree from Bilkent University’s Political Science Department with his thesis entitled “Portrait of a Turkish Social Democrat: Ismail Cem”, under the supervision of Dr. Berrak Burçak, from a distinguished jury composed of Prof. Metin Heper, Prof. Ergun Özbudun, Prof. Ayşe Güneş Ayata, and Dr. Nur Bilge Criss. He worked as a Lecturer in Uşak University’s Public Administration Department between 2009 and 2012. Between October 2012 and January 2016, he worked as an Assistant Professor and headed the Department of Political Science and Public Administration (English) at Girne American University (GAU) in North Cyprus (TRNC). He then returned to Turkey (Türkiye) and served as a faculty member and department chair at various universities, including Beykent University (2016-18), Gedik University (2018-20), Istanbul Kent University (2020-23, 2024-25), and Istanbul Aydın University (2023-24). He became an Associate Professor in Political Science in 2018 and was appointed as a Full Professor at Istanbul Kent University for the first time in 2024. He has previously published many scientific books and articles in Turkey and abroad. He is the editor of some academic books specialising in Turkish Foreign Policy, including Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Millennium (Peter Lang, 2015), Mavi Elma: Türkiye-Avrupa İlişkileri (Gazi Kitabevi, 2016), Historical Examinations and Current Issues in Turkish-American Relations (Peter Lang, 2020), Turkish-French Relations: History, Present, and the Future (Springer, 2022), Cumhuriyet’in 100. Yılında Nasıl Bir Dış Politika? (Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık, 2023), Turkish-American Relations in the 21st Century (Lexington Books, 2024), Türkiye-Britain Relations: Two Hundred Years of an Intertwined Conflict and Cooperation (Lexington Books, 2024), Contemporary Turkish-Russian Relations in the 21st Century Global Geopolitics (TPLondon, 2025), and From Bosporus to Mount Fuji: Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations between Türkiye and Japan (Bloomsbury, 2026) and the author of Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri (Urzeni Yayıncılık, 2021), Türkiye-Fransa İlişkileri (Urzeni Yayıncılık, 2022), 2023 Turkish Elections in All Aspects (Peter Lang, 2023), İngiliz Jeopolitik Yaklaşımları ve Türk-İngiliz İlişkileri (Sarmal Kitabevi, 2025), and The Dynamics of Turkish Foreign Policy: Key Concepts and Strategic Approaches (Peter Lang, 2026). In addition, he wrote books in the Turkish language analysing the political system and foreign policy of countries, including the United States, the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, the European Union, and Japan. He can speak and write fluently in both French and English. Örmeci is also the Founding Coordinator of the International Policy Academy (UPA), the owner and editor-in-chief of the UPA Strategic Affairs academic journal, and an expert on European Studies at the BİLGESAM think-tank. His primary research interests include International Politics, Comparative Politics, Great Power Politics, Political Psychology, Turkish Political History, Leftist Movements in Turkey, and Turkish Foreign Policy. He is also a member of the Congress of Karşıyaka Sports Club (KSK) and a fan of Beşiktaş (BJK).
Cansu Arısoy Gedik
Asst. Prof. Dr. Cansu Arısoy Gedik
İSTANBUL KENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Sociology of Gender, Political Sociology, Communication Sociology, Entertainment Sociology, Communication Theories, Social Media Applications and Analysis, Political Advertising, Political Communication, Conflict Resolution in International Relations, Communication Studies
Mahmut Deniz Tansi
Turkish Foreign Policy, Turkish Political Life, Political Science
Oğuzhan Göksel
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Oğuzhan Göksel
MARMARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Political Science, Turkish Foreign Policy, Political Economy Theory, International Relations Theories, Comparative Political Institutions, Middle East Studies, International Relations, Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Turkish Political Life

Dr. Oguzhan Goksel is Assistant Professor of Political Economy & IR at Marmara University, Faculty of Economics, Turkey. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of New Middle Eastern Studies (NMES) journal based in the UK. He completed his multi-disciplinary Ph.D. degree on Political Science and Political Economy at Durham University, UK in 2015. Goksel’s works have been published in various edited books and SSCI-indexed international peer-reviewed journals such as Mediterranean Politics, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and Turkish Studies. He is the co-editor of the books entitled "Türkiye-Britain Relations: Two Hundred Years of an Intertwined Conflict and Cooperation" (New York: Lexington Books, 2024) and "Turkey’s Relations with the Middle East: Political Encounters after the Arab Spring" (New York: Springer, 2018) and ". Goksel's main areas of research are modernisation and non-Western modernities, political economy of development, historical sociology, foreign policy analysis and comparative politics.

Eren Alper Yılmaz
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eren Alper Yılmaz
AYDIN ADNAN MENDERES ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Middle East Studies, European Union, Public Administration, International Migration, Turkish Foreign Policy
AC
Political Science
Sina Kısacık
Asst. Prof. Dr. Sina Kısacık
Cyprus Aydın University Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences English International Relations Department
Conflict Resolution in International Relations, Politics in International Relations, International Security, Turkish Foreign Policy
Seda Gözde Tokatlı
Asst. Prof. Dr. Seda Gözde Tokatlı
İzmir Demokrasi Üniversitesi
International Security, International Relations Theories, Globalisation, International Institutions

Küreselleşme , Göç, Uluslararası İlişkiler Kuramları, Uluslararası Kuruluşlar , Çin Dış Politikası, Amerikan Dış Politikası

Teoman Ertuğrul Tulun
Dr. Teoman Ertuğrul Tulun
Avrasya İncelemeleri Merkezi
International Politics, International Migration, International Law, Political Sociology
Serdar Çukur
Dr. Serdar Çukur
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi
Regional Studies, International Relations, International Law

Spelling Check

Ozan Ormeci
Prof. Dr. Ozan Ormeci
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi
Turkish Political Life, Turkish Foreign Policy, Comparative Political Movement, Political Science, European and Region Studies, International Relations, International Politics
Eren Alper Yılmaz
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eren Alper Yılmaz
AYDIN ADNAN MENDERES ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Middle East Studies, European Union, Public Administration, International Migration, Turkish Foreign Policy
DT
Data and Information Privacy
Cansu Arısoy Gedik
Asst. Prof. Dr. Cansu Arısoy Gedik
İSTANBUL KENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Sociology of Gender, Political Sociology, Communication Sociology, Entertainment Sociology, Communication Theories, Social Media Applications and Analysis, Political Advertising, Political Communication, Conflict Resolution in International Relations, Communication Studies
Sina Kısacık
Asst. Prof. Dr. Sina Kısacık
Cyprus Aydın University Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences English International Relations Department
Conflict Resolution in International Relations, Politics in International Relations, International Security, Turkish Foreign Policy
Teoman Ertuğrul Tulun
Dr. Teoman Ertuğrul Tulun
Avrasya İncelemeleri Merkezi
International Politics, International Migration, International Law, Political Sociology
Serdar Çukur
Dr. Serdar Çukur
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi
Regional Studies, International Relations, International Law
Seda Gözde Tokatlı
Asst. Prof. Dr. Seda Gözde Tokatlı
İzmir Demokrasi Üniversitesi
International Security, International Relations Theories, Globalisation, International Institutions
Oğuzhan Manioğlu
Doctoral Oğuzhan Manioğlu
İstanbul Kent Üniversitesi
Comparative Political Institutions, Political Geography
AC
Political Science
Oğuzhan Göksel
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Oğuzhan Göksel
MARMARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Political Science, Turkish Foreign Policy, Political Economy Theory, International Relations Theories, Comparative Political Institutions, Middle East Studies, International Relations, Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Turkish Political Life

Advisory Board/Danışma Kurulu

Ozan Ormeci
Prof. Dr. Ozan Ormeci
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi
Turkish Political Life, Turkish Foreign Policy, Comparative Political Movement, Political Science, European and Region Studies, International Relations, International Politics
Professor Ozan Örmeci was born in 1981 in Bornova, Izmir. His father’s family is from Senirkent, Isparta. He completed his primary education at Izmir Turk College (ITK) and received a middle school and lycée education at Izmir Saint-Joseph French College. He graduated from Bilkent University’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration (English) in 2004 as a high-honour student. In 2011, he earned a PhD degree from Bilkent University’s Political Science Department with his thesis entitled “Portrait of a Turkish Social Democrat: Ismail Cem”, under the supervision of Dr. Berrak Burçak, from a distinguished jury composed of Prof. Metin Heper, Prof. Ergun Özbudun, Prof. Ayşe Güneş Ayata, and Dr. Nur Bilge Criss. He worked as a Lecturer in Uşak University’s Public Administration Department between 2009 and 2012. Between October 2012 and January 2016, he worked as an Assistant Professor and headed the Department of Political Science and Public Administration (English) at Girne American University (GAU) in North Cyprus (TRNC). He then returned to Turkey (Türkiye) and served as a faculty member and department chair at various universities, including Beykent University (2016-18), Gedik University (2018-20), Istanbul Kent University (2020-23, 2024-25), and Istanbul Aydın University (2023-24). He became an Associate Professor in Political Science in 2018 and was appointed as a Full Professor at Istanbul Kent University for the first time in 2024. He has previously published many scientific books and articles in Turkey and abroad. He is the editor of some academic books specialising in Turkish Foreign Policy, including Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Millennium (Peter Lang, 2015), Mavi Elma: Türkiye-Avrupa İlişkileri (Gazi Kitabevi, 2016), Historical Examinations and Current Issues in Turkish-American Relations (Peter Lang, 2020), Turkish-French Relations: History, Present, and the Future (Springer, 2022), Cumhuriyet’in 100. Yılında Nasıl Bir Dış Politika? (Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık, 2023), Turkish-American Relations in the 21st Century (Lexington Books, 2024), Türkiye-Britain Relations: Two Hundred Years of an Intertwined Conflict and Cooperation (Lexington Books, 2024), Contemporary Turkish-Russian Relations in the 21st Century Global Geopolitics (TPLondon, 2025), and From Bosporus to Mount Fuji: Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations between Türkiye and Japan (Bloomsbury, 2026) and the author of Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri (Urzeni Yayıncılık, 2021), Türkiye-Fransa İlişkileri (Urzeni Yayıncılık, 2022), 2023 Turkish Elections in All Aspects (Peter Lang, 2023), İngiliz Jeopolitik Yaklaşımları ve Türk-İngiliz İlişkileri (Sarmal Kitabevi, 2025), and The Dynamics of Turkish Foreign Policy: Key Concepts and Strategic Approaches (Peter Lang, 2026). In addition, he wrote books in the Turkish language analysing the political system and foreign policy of countries, including the United States, the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, the European Union, and Japan. He can speak and write fluently in both French and English. Örmeci is also the Founding Coordinator of the International Policy Academy (UPA), the owner and editor-in-chief of the UPA Strategic Affairs academic journal, and an expert on European Studies at the BİLGESAM think-tank. His primary research interests include International Politics, Comparative Politics, Great Power Politics, Political Psychology, Turkish Political History, Leftist Movements in Turkey, and Turkish Foreign Policy. He is also a member of the Congress of Karşıyaka Sports Club (KSK) and a fan of Beşiktaş (BJK).
Hakan Mehmet Kiriş
Prof. Dr. Hakan Mehmet Kiriş
Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi
Political Science (Other), Comparative Political Institutions, Turkish Political Life

Prof. Dr. Hakan Mehmet Kiriş, Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi öğretim üyesidir. Siyaset bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümünde, siyasal ve sosyal bilimler alanında çalışır. Siyaset Bilimi, Türk Siyasal Hayatı, İnsanlık Tarihi, İnsanlığın Geleceği başlıca dersleridir. Yükseköğretim araştırmalarıyla ilgilenir, kişisel gelişime önem verir ve kafa yorar, dünyayı ve insanlığı anlama ve hayatı anlamlandırma sanatını öğrenmeye ve öğrendiklerini paylaşmaya çalışır. Pek çok akademik makale ve kitaplarının yanında "Yaşam ve Kariyer Sahnesinde Kendine Başrol Yaz" okur katılımlı e-kitabın ortak yazarı ve "The Role of Strategy Games on Personal Development" e-kitabının yazarıdır. 

Mahmut Deniz Tansi
Turkish Foreign Policy, Turkish Political Life, Political Science
Eren Alper Yılmaz
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eren Alper Yılmaz
AYDIN ADNAN MENDERES ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Middle East Studies, European Union, Public Administration, International Migration, Turkish Foreign Policy
Oğuzhan Göksel
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Oğuzhan Göksel
MARMARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Political Science, Turkish Foreign Policy, Political Economy Theory, International Relations Theories, Comparative Political Institutions, Middle East Studies, International Relations, Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Turkish Political Life

Dr. Oguzhan Goksel is Assistant Professor of Political Economy & IR at Marmara University, Faculty of Economics, Turkey. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of New Middle Eastern Studies (NMES) journal based in the UK. He completed his multi-disciplinary Ph.D. degree on Political Science and Political Economy at Durham University, UK in 2015. Goksel’s works have been published in various edited books and SSCI-indexed international peer-reviewed journals such as Mediterranean Politics, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and Turkish Studies. He is the co-editor of the books entitled "Türkiye-Britain Relations: Two Hundred Years of an Intertwined Conflict and Cooperation" (New York: Lexington Books, 2024) and "Turkey’s Relations with the Middle East: Political Encounters after the Arab Spring" (New York: Springer, 2018) and ". Goksel's main areas of research are modernisation and non-Western modernities, political economy of development, historical sociology, foreign policy analysis and comparative politics.

Sina Kısacık
Asst. Prof. Dr. Sina Kısacık
Cyprus Aydın University Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences English International Relations Department
Conflict Resolution in International Relations, Politics in International Relations, International Security, Turkish Foreign Policy
Seda Gözde Tokatlı
Asst. Prof. Dr. Seda Gözde Tokatlı
İzmir Demokrasi Üniversitesi
International Security, International Relations Theories, Globalisation, International Institutions

Küreselleşme , Göç, Uluslararası İlişkiler Kuramları, Uluslararası Kuruluşlar , Çin Dış Politikası, Amerikan Dış Politikası

Prof. Dr. Hasret Çomak
İSTANBUL KENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
European and Region Studies, Turkish Foreign Policy, European Studies, International Foundation, Political Science
Tayyar Arı
Prof. Dr. Tayyar Arı
Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi
American Studies, Turkish Foreign Policy, Regional Studies, Middle East Studies, International Relations, International Relations Theories
SA
Prof. Dr. Sedat Aybar
BAHCESEHIR UNIVERSITY
Political Economy Theory, Development Economics

Sedat Aybar, Professor of Economics and Finance, BSc. (Econ), MA (London), PhD (London), is the Director of Asia-Pacific-Africa Research Center at Bahçeşehir University where he also teaches at the Department of Economics. He was the Director of African Studies Centre and Director of China Study Center at Istanbul Aydin University. In Türkiye, he has started the first Africa Research Center and China Research Center that are incorporated within a university structure. He taught, researched and published on a variety of topics that includes, International Economics, Banking and Finance in Economic Development, Development Economics, Central Bank Independence, African economies and Political Economy of Turkey. He has taught in South Korea, Poland, Republic of China, Lithuania, United States, as well as in the UK and Turkiye. He has worked as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Overseas Development Agency (ODA) and the UNDP. He was the Director of joint Executive MBA Program of Kadir Has University with Fordham University of New York. He teaches distant study courses at graduate level at University of London’s (SOAS), Centre for Finance and International Management (CeFiMS). He worked in the banking industry in London at managerial level for almost ten years. He also worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), in London, England. He is currently the country team leader (Turkey) for a joint research project, Emerging Markets Global Players (EMGP) with the Vale Columbia Centre of the Columbia University in New York. He is the founder editor of Florya Chronicles of Political Economy, an academic periodical published in English.

Gürol Baba
Prof. Dr. Gürol Baba
ANKARA SOSYAL BİLİMLER ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Politics in International Relations, Turkish Foreign Policy, Regional Studies, American Studies, International Relations, International Politics, Far East Studies, International Relations Theories
İB
Prof. Dr. İsmail Melih Baş
İSTANBUL AREL ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Foreign Trade, International Finance, Ecological Economics
Prof. Dr. Sefa Çetin
ANTALYA BILIM UNIVERSITY
Public Administration
Fahri Erenel
Prof. Dr. Fahri Erenel
İstinye Üniversitesi
Public Administration, Defence Studies, Strategy, Humanitarian Disasters, Conflict and Peacebuilding

He successfully completed his undergraduate studies in economics at the Turkish Military Academy in 1980 and graduated from the Turkish War Academy as a Staff Officer in 1991. He graduated from the Armed Forces Academy in 1993. He served at various levels within the Turkish Armed Forces between 1980 and 2010, retiring with the rank of Brigadier General.
He completed his undergraduate studies in Disaster and Emergency Management, Sociology, Logistics Management, and International Relations, his postgraduate studies in National and International Security, Educational Administration and Supervision, and Occupational Health and Safety, and his PhD in Human Resources Management. He became an Associate Professor in Management and Strategy in 2017 and a Professor in the same field in 2023.
Between 2011 and 2017, he served as a founder, administrator, faculty member, and member of various committees in various academic units at Istanbul Altınbaş University. He currently serves as the Head and Department Chair of the Department of Business Administration at İstinye University, a faculty member in the Departments of Political Science and Public Administration and Logistics Management, and Head of the Department of Occupational Health and Safety Master's Program.
During his service in the Turkish Armed Forces, he received training on disasters and emergencies both domestically and internationally. He received basic and specialized training on disasters and emergencies at AKUT, Turkey's non-governmental organization specializing in disasters. He participated in the planning and implementation stages of the UN-conducted qualification assessment of AKUT's light search and rescue team's ability to participate in international disaster and emergency operations. He served as the Head of AKUT's Press Relations Unit. He served on the Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors of the AKUT Foundation. He founded and currently serves as the President of the İZDÜŞÜM Association, which began operations two years ago and focuses on disasters and emergencies. He served both centrally and in the field during the Erçiş and Hatay earthquakes. He has provided training to numerous civil society organizations on the delivery, recording, storage, and distribution of relief supplies in disaster and emergencysituations. He prepared comprehensive feedback reports on the restructuring of the Esenyurt Municipality for disaster and emergency situations and also analyzed the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality's IRAP (Improvised Emergency Response Plan). He has provided Occupational Health and Safety in Disaster and Emergency Situations training to numerous civil society organizations working in the field of disaster and emergency, particularly AKUT.
He is an Occupational Safety Specialist. He serves as an occupational safety expert. He is a member of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Board.
He is a volunteer with AFAD (Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency). He has completed basic and specialized training.
He has authored books, book chapters, and articles on disaster and emergency management. He has presented numerous papers on this subject. He has given conferences on disaster and emergency situations to numerous institutions and organizations, including universities, and has participated in television programs. He serves as a panelist on disaster and emergency-related topics in TÜBİTAK projects.
He is the News Manager of Global and Defense Magazines. He is an Honorary Member of the Turkish Armed Forces Military Sciences Research Center. He was awarded the TASAM Strategic Visionary Scientist Award in 2019.

Ghadir Golkarian
Prof. Dr. Ghadir Golkarian
Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi
International Politics, Comparative and Transnational Literature, Classical Turkish Literature, History of Ideas, Middle East Studies, Cognitive Linguistics, Persian Language, Literature and Culture, Anatolia Language, Literature and Culture, Literary Theory
Armağan Gözkaman
Prof. Dr. Armağan Gözkaman
BEYKENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
European Union, European and Region Studies, Peace Studies, Turkish Foreign Policy
Michelangelo Guida
Prof. Dr. Michelangelo Guida
İSTANBUL MEDENİYET ÜNİVERSİTESİ, SİYASAL BİLGİLER FAKÜLTESİ
Turkish Political Life, Political Movement, Intellectual History of Politics
İtalya’da doğan Prof. Dr. Michelangelo Guida, Napoli’de bulunan Istituto Universitario Orientale Siyaset Bilimi Bölümünde 2001’de lisans ve ilk yüksek lisans derecesini aldı. 2001-2002 yıllarında Londra’da SOAS’ta Türk Siyaseti üzerinde yüksek lisansını tamamladı. Yine 2005’te Istituto Universitario Orientale’de doktorasını bitirdi. 2005 ile 2013 yılları arasında Fatih Üniversitesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi bölümünde çalıştı. 2011’de ise Doçent oldu. Michelangelo Guida’nın çalışma alanı Türkiye ve Orta Doğu’daki İslâmcılık ve seçmen davranışlarıdır. Bu iki alanda çeşitli uluslararası dergilerde ve kitaplarda yayınları bulunmaktadır.
Hüseyin Gül
Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Gül
SÜLEYMAN DEMİREL ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Urban Field Management, Public Policy, Public Administration

Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Gül: 1991 yılında Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü’nden mezun oldu. Hacettepe Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü’nde yüksek lisans çalışmaları yaparken, YÖK bursu kazanarak lisansüstü eğitimi için Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ne gitti. Teksas Üniversitesi’nde Kentsel Çalışmalar ve Kamu Yönetimi alanlarında iki yüksek lisans, Kent ve Kamu Yönetimi alanında ise doktora derecesi aldı. 1999 ve 2000 yıllarında, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nde gerçekleştirilen 1996-refah devleti reformu üzerine Rockefeller Enstitüsü’nce yürütülen araştırma projesinin Teksas ayağında araştırma görevlisi olarak çalıştı. Halen Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü’nde öğretim üyesi olarak çalışmaktadır. Hüseyin Gül, kentsel yoksullukla ve kent ve kamu politikalarıyla ilgili değişik araştırma projelerinde yer almıştır. Bu alanların yanı sıra, kamu yönetimi ve sosyal devlet reformu, yerel yönetimler, kentleşme, kent ve kamu politikası, yerel kalkınma ve yönetişim, kentsel yoksullukla mücadele, kariyer planlaması gibi alanlarda ulusal ve uluslararası çalışmaları bulunmaktadır.

BG
Prof. Dr. Burak Samih Gülboy
İSTANBUL ÜNİVERSİTESİ
War Studies, European Studies
MI
Turkish Political Life
Hüsamettin İnaç
Prof. Dr. Hüsamettin İnaç
Dumlupinar University
International Security, International Politics, European Union-Turkiye Relations
UK
Prof. Dr. Ulvi Keser
FINAL INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Turkish Political Life
TK
Prof. Dr. Timuçin Kodaman
SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY
Politics in International Relations, Turkish Political Life, Turkish Foreign Policy
Oytun Meçik
Prof. Dr. Oytun Meçik
Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi
Macroeconomics, Employment, Panel Data Analysis
He is a Professor Doctor at Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Department of Economics. Meçik completed his undergraduate education at Eskişehir Osmangazi University in 2008, his master's degree at Uşak University in 2010, and his doctorate in Economics at Anadolu University in 2014. He received the title of Associate Professor in Macroeconomics in 2017 and became a Professor in 2023. Meçik, who has many studies in the fields of labor market and social and economic networks, currently works on social capital, education-job mismatch, the effects of digital transformation, and innovation economics. Meçik serves as editor and editorial board member in national and international journals and publishers. Meçik is a member of the Turkish Economic Association and the Regional Science Turkish National Committee. 

Celil Uğur Özgöker
Prof. Dr. Celil Uğur Özgöker
İstanbul Arel Üniversitesi
Turkish Foreign Policy, European Union Economy, International Trade, International Relations, Political Science, European and Region Studies, European Union-Turkiye Relations, Turkish Political Life, International Institutions
www.ugurozgoker.com
HR
Prof. Dr. Herbert Reginbogin
Istanbul Kent University
International Law
AT
Recreation Sociology, Communication Sociology, Sociology of Sports, Political Sociology
Levent Ürer
Prof. Dr. Levent Ürer
İSTANBUL AYDIN ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Political Ecology, International Relations Theories, Comparative Political Movement, Philosophy of Society

1962 Yılında Samsun’da doğdu. Samsun Anadolu Lisesi’ni 1980, Gazi Üniversitesi, İktisadi İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü’nü 1985, İstanbul Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü’nde Yüksek Lisansını tamamladı. 1995 yılında aynı kurumda “Ulusal ve Uluslararası Düzeyde Etnik Gruplar ve Devlet” adlı teziyle Doktor Unvanını aldı. 1991 yılından itibaren İstanbul Üniversitesi İktisat Fakültesi’nde Araştırma Görevlisi ve aynı kurumda 1995 ile 2005 yılları arasında Yardımcı Doçent olarak çalıştı. 2005 yılında Siyasi Tarih alanında Doçent olan Levent Ürer, 2013 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi, İktisat Fakültesinde, Siyaset Bilimi Anabilim Dalında Profesör unvanını aldı. 2014 yılında emekli oldu., Beykent Üniversitesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümünde 2014-2020 yılları arasında çalıştı. Halen İstinye Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümünde çalışmaktadır. İ.Ü. İktisat Fakültesinde Dekan Yardımcılığı, Siyaset Bilimi Anabilim Dalı Başkanlığı 2005-2013 yılları arasında yapmıştır. Beykent Üniversitesi’nde 2014-2016 yılları arasında Rektör Yardımcılığı, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi ve İletişim Fakültesi Vekil dekanlığı gibi farklı idari görevlerde bulunmuştur.
Türk Dış Politikası, Siyasi Tarih, Siyasi Olaylar Tarihi, Siyaset Bilimi, Uluslararası İlişkiler, Uluslararası Göç ve Nüfus Hareketleri, Milliyetçilik ve Azınlık Hakları üzerine Lisans, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora dersleri vermiştir. Azınlıklar ve Lozan Tartışmaları (2003), Mondros’tan Mudanya Mütarekesi’ne Türk Dış Politikası (2005), Soysal Devletten Sosyal Devlete, Ulusçuluk Tartışmaları (2012), 2012 yılında derlemiş olduğu, Roman Olup Çingene Kalmak adlı kitapları vardır. Milliyetçilik, azınlık hakları, siyaset bilimi, tarih sosyolojisi alanları temelinde yayınlanmış, çeşitli makaleleri vardır. 

AB
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arda Baş
BOLU ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY
Intellectual History of Politics
NC
Turkish Political Life
GF
Prof. Dr. Giray Fidan
ANKARA HACI BAYRAM VELİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Chinese Language, Literature and Culture
Asst. Prof. Dr. Volkan İpek
YEDİTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Political Economy, Turkish Foreign Policy, African Studies, Late Modern African History
FK
Prof. Dr. Faruk Kalay
ADNAN MENDERES ÜNİVERSİTESİ
North American Language, Literature and Culture
MK
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat Kasapsaraçoğlu
İSTANBUL AYDIN ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Turkish Foreign Policy, Middle East Studies, Türkish Political Hİstory
SM
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sezgin Mercan
BAŞKENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
European Studies, European Union, European Union-Turkiye Relations, Turkish Foreign Policy, European and Region Studies
Mehmet Cem Oğultürk
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Cem Oğultürk
İSTANBUL AYDIN ÜNİVERSİTESİ
International Relations, Regional Studies, Turkish Foreign Policy, International Security, International Relations Theories, Politics in International Relations, Contemporary Balkan History, Political History, Political Geography in Political History, Late Modern Balkan History, African Studies, Turkish Political Life
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cenk Özgen
Giresun Üniversitesi
International Security
DP
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Doğan Şafak Polat
İSTANBUL KENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Middle East Studies, Terrorism in International Relations, International Institutions, International Relations Theories, Turkish Foreign Policy, International Relations, Security Studies, War Studies, Political Science
Ankara Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesinde Doktorasını tamamladı.
VT
Prof. Dr. Veronika Tsibenko
Southern Federal University
International Politics, Turkish Foreign Policy, Contemporary Asian History, Contemporary Russian History, Communication Studies, Cultural Studies of Nation and Region
NS
International Politics
Ayşe Yarar
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Yarar
SÜLEYMAN DEMİREL ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Turkish Foreign Policy, History of The Republic of Turkiye, Politics in International Relations
MW
International Politics

Matthew Weiss is a professor of Political Science at the College of Southern Nevada (USA),
located in Las Vegas. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public
Affairs and Security Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where he taught
classes for both the undergraduate minor and the Masters of Public Affairs program in Global
Security Studies. From 2011-2012, he served as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Middle
East Institute of the National University of Singapore. He obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science
from the University of California Davis (USA) in 2011. Dr. Weiss has published articles in a
variety of journals concerning Turkish foreign policy, Turkish-Kurdish relations, water scarcity
and conflict in Yemen, and cooperation and conflict over international river basins. His primary
research and teaching interests center around international relations, Middle East politics,
American government and non-traditional security issues.

KW
Asst. Prof. Dr. Keisuke Wakizaka
ISTANBUL GELISIM UNIVERSITY
Studies of the Turkic World, International Politics


İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi
Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
English
Eğitim Bilgileri
Eğitim Bilgileri
2012 - 2019Doktora
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Bölge Çalışmaları (Dr), Türkiye

2009 - 2012Yüksek Lisans
Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Siyaset Bilimi Ve Uluslararası İlişkiler (Yl) (Tezli), Türkiye

2004 - 2008Lisans
Tohoku Gakuin Üniversitesi, Hukuk Bölümü, Japonya

Yaptığı Tezler
2019Doktora
Living as ”North Caucasians” in Georgia: Identity and integration in Georgia among the Ossetian and the Chechen-Kist communities

Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Bölge Çalışmaları (Dr)

2012Yüksek Lisans
Türkiye’xxdeki Gürcü ve Çerkes Diasporasının gözüyle Abhazya meselesi ve kimlik sorunu

Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Siyaset Bilimi Ve Uluslararası İlişkiler (Yl) (Tezli)

Yabancı Diller
C1 İleriİngilizce

Hasibe Şahoğlu
Assoc. Prof. Hasibe Şahoğlu
Girne American University
Conflict Resolution in International Relations

(R) Ambassador Asst. Prof Dr. Hasibe Vehbi Şahoğlu was born in Cyprus in 1953. She is married, has two children and three grandchildren. She studied primary, secondary and high school at Cyprus and at United States. She completed his university education in Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Business Administration; masters in Near East University and his Ph.D. in International Relations at Girne American University.
She was awarded a certificate by participating in "Interactive Management" courses with Casp and Fullbright scholarships. She received the “Trainer” certificate by receiving Conflict Resolution training from Cyprus Consortium. In the year 1992-97, she participated in various bi-communal work-shops between Turkish and Greek Cypriots. She worked as a diplomat in TRNC Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He completed his first overseas duty in Baku-Azerbaijan. In the Foreign Ministry of Turkish Republic of Cyprus, she became the Protocol Manager. She then served as the Ambassador of the TRNC first to Islamabad and then to Abu Dhabi, respectively.
Currently, she is an academician at Faculty of Political Sciences of Girne American University. Hasibe Şahoğlu is also a poet and a writer. She has two poetry books, two memoirs and a novel. One of the poetry books has been translated into English. Various articles have been published in newspapers and magazines. Şahoğlu is a member of Cyprus Turkish Writers Union, TRNC University Women Association and General Coordinator of Beşparmak Think Tank Group.

Selim Sezer
Asst. Prof. Dr. Selim Sezer
İSTANBUL SABAHATTİN ZAİM ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Turkish Political Life, Political Science, Middle East Studies

2017 yılında Galatasaray Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi Ana Bilim Dalı'ndan doktora derecesini aldı. Aynı yıl Nişantaşı Üniversitesi'nde yardımcı doçent olarak görev yapmaya başladı. 2018-2024 yılları arasında İstanbul Gedik Üniversitesi'nde görev yaptı. Halen İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler bölümünde öğretim üyesidir. Türk Siyasal Hayatı ve Ortadoğu siyaseti üzerine, 2025 yılı başı itibariyle ikisi uluslararası (SSCI) olmak üzere 10'a yakın makale, bir kitap ve dört kitap bölümü yayınlamıştır. 

Dr. Gaye Özkasap
İSTANBUL KENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
International Corporation, Organisation and Management Theory, Strategy, Corporate Social Responsibility in Management, Organizasyon
Mesut Özel
Asst. Prof. Dr. Mesut Özel
İSTANBUL KENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
International Politics, Security Studies, International Relations, International Security, African Studies, International Foundation, European and Region Studies, Contemporary Military History, War Studies


MESUT OZEL

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

E-Mail Address : mesut.ozel@kent.edu.tr
Phone (Work) : 2126101010-
:
Address NO:24, 34406 Kâğıthane/Istanbul



Education



Doctoral KADIR HAS UNIVERSITY->INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS->INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (PhD) (ENGLISH)

2017
11/March/2021 Thesis name: Turkish Navy's Move 'Towards Blue Waters': Its Origins, development and implementation (2021) Thesis Advisor:(Mitat Çelikpala; Nurhan Kahyaoglu; Serhat Guvenc)





Master (Non-thesis) NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY->JOINT WAR INSTITUTE

2000
25/July/2000





Master (Non-thesis) NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY->NAVAL WAR COLLEGE->SECURITY STRATEGIES AND NAVAL FORCE (MASTER) (WITHOUT THESIS)

1997
25/July/1999





Master (Thesis) US Naval Postgraduate School/Mechanical Engineering

1988
20/Dec/1990 (1990) Thesis Advisor: (Prof. Dr. Turgut Sarpkaya)





Bachelor's Degree ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY->FACULTY OF OPEN AND DISTANCE EDUCATION->DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND TURKISH LANGUAGE TEACHING->HISTORY PR.

2015
7/July/2019





Bachelor's Degree NAVAL ACADEMY COMMAND->NAVAL ACADEMY (DEAN'S OFFICE)->DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING->MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PR.

1980
30/Aug/1984



Academic Title


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY/FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES/DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS/INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PR. (ENGLISH)
28.05.2024

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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY/GRADUATE SCHOOL / POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (M.SC.) (THESIS) (ENGLISH)
11.09.2023


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY/FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES/DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION/POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PR. (ENGLISH)
11.09.2023-28.05.2024

Supervised Theses:

Master
2025

1. SAFAEVA NODIRA, (2025). CHANGING POLITICAL AND MILITARY IMAGES OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE IN HIS FILMS SHOT IN DIFFERENT PERIODS, Istanbul Kent University->Institute of Graduate Studies->Department of Political Science and Public Administration (Ongoing)



2. ABDURAHIMOVA MAFTUNAHON, (2025). TERRITORIAL DISPUTES BETWEEN KYRGYZSTAN AND TAJIKISTAN: IMPLICATIONS FOR REGIONAL STABILITY, Istanbul Kent University->Institute of Graduate Studies->Department of Political Science and Public Administration (Ongoing)


Administrative Position
ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY->FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES->DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS->INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PR. (ENGLISH)
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS ACADEMY STRATEGIC AFFAIRS




ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY->FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES->DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS->INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PR. (ENGLISH)
Head of Department




ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY->. /INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES APPLICATION AND RESEARCH CENTER
International Center for Strategic Studies
05.03.2024

ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY->FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES/FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Istanbul Kent University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Editor and
01.03.2024

ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY->FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES->DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS->INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PR. (ENGLISH)
Faculty Board Member




ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY->DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION->DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION->
EXEMPTION AND ADAPTATION COMMISSION SBKY (ENG)




ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY->FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES/FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Faculty Advisory Board
11.09.2023

ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY->DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION->DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION->POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PR. (ENGLISH)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research and Publication Ethics Committee




ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY->FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES/FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Quality Council Membership
11.09.2023

ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY->INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS->POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (MA)
Head of Programme




ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY->DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION->DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION->POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PR.
Head of Department




2

ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY->DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ADMINISTRATION/POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PR.
Faculty Board Membership




ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY->INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS->POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (MASTER) (WITH THESIS) (ENGLISH
Institute Board Membership
11.09.2023-28.05.2024




NAVAL ACADEMY COMMAND
COMMANDER OF THE NAVAL ACADEMY (RECTOR Equivalent)
07.08.2013-29.07.2016


Courses * Language of Instruction Course Hour Semester

2023-2024
Bachelor's Degree Programme

Special Topics in Politics English 2
HISTORY OF TURKISH ADMINISTRATION English 3
Scientific Research Methods Turkish 3
Current Political Debates Turkish 2
ETHNIC ISSUES AND NATIONALISM English 2
HISTORY OF TURKISH ADMINISTRATION Turkish 3
Master Programme

INTERNATIONAL CURRENT PROBLEMS English 3
Regional Studies English 3



B. Papers presented at international scientific meetings and published in proceedings:
ÖZEL MESUT (2019). Maritime Security: An Analysis of Its Conceptual Development and Reflection on National and International Implementation and Strategy Documents. New Marine Security Ecosystem and Eastern Mediterranean, 94-125. (Full Text Publication/Guest Speaker) (Publication No: 8662988)
1.


ÖZEL MESUT (2020). Chinese Presence in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Interaction of the Belt and Road Initiative and Regional Energy and Sovereignty Problems. Building the Future from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, 94-125. (Full Text Publication/Guest Speaker) (Publication No: 8662981)
2.


ÖZEL MESUT (2023). CHANGING NAVAL BALANCES IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN: A NEW NAVAL ARMS RACE OR PLANNED MODERNIZATION OF NAVIES?. 9th Istanbul Security Conference 5. Maritime Affairs and Maritime Security Forum (Abstract/Guest Speaker) (Publication No: 8663008)
3.


ÖZEL MESUT (2024). Global Geopolitical Risks in the Near Future and Their Reflections on Turkey. 1st International Global and Regional Risk Assessment Workshop (Full Text Publication/Guest Speaker) (Publication No: 8954900)
4.


C. Authored national/international books or chapters in books: C1. Authored national/international books:

The Law of Armed Conflict at Sea (1999)., OZEL MESUT, Kurumahmut Ali, Harp Academies Printing House, Edition No:1, Pages 180, ISBN:00000000000, Turkish (Scientific Book) (Publication No: 8720257)
1.


C. Authored national/international books or chapters in books: C2. Chapters written in national/international books:

3

LATIN AMERICAN GEOPOLITICS, Chapter name:(THE FATE OF REGIONALIZATION IN SOUTH AMERICA: EPHEMERAL REGIONAL INITIATIVES) (2024)., OZEL MESUT, Nobel Academic Publishing Education Consultancy Trade Ltd. Şti., Editor: ÇOMAK HASRET, Arslan Bozkuş Çağla, ŞEKER BURAK ŞAKİR, Edition no:1, Pages 332, ISBN:978-625-371-479-6, English(Scientific Book) (Publication No: 9047152)
1.


Global Risks and Their Impact on Türkiye, Chapter name:(Global Geopolitical Risks in the Near Future and Their Reflections on Türkiye) (2024)., OZEL MESUT, Transnational Press London, Editor: OZEL MESUT, ŞEKER BURAK ŞAKİR, POLAT DOĞAN ŞAFAK, KORAY NİYAZİ MURAT, Edition no:1, Pages 493, ISBN:9781801353090, English(Scientific Book) (Publication No: 9188013)
2.


D. Articles published in national refereed journals:
PRIVATE MESUT (2023). The Republican Navy's Attempts to Acquire a New Yavuz: Operational Needs or Navy Symbolism?. Turkish Journal of War Studies, 4(1), 1-26., Doi: 10.52792/tws.1286538 (Control No: 8662952)
1.


PRIVATE MESUT (2022). NAVAL SOCIETIES IN TURKEY: DEVELOPMENT AND DONATION CAMPAIGNS IN THE HISTORICAL PROCESS. Journal of Academic History and Research, 5(7), 20-57., Doi: 10.56448/ataddergi.1181349 (Control No: 8662964)
2.


E. Papers presented at national scientific meetings and published in
ÖZEL MESUT (2024). POWER COMPETITION IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN:
A NEW NAVY/AIR FORCE ARMS RACE BEYOND MODERNIZATION PLANS. STRATEGY, TACTICS AND TECHNIQUES IN THE WARS OF THE 21ST CENTURY: DETERMINATIONS AND EVALUATIONS, 181-199. (Full Text Publication/Guest Speaker) (Publication No: 8954895)
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Editor Position

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Global Risks and Their Impact On Türkiye, Book, Editor, Transnational Press London, 25.11.2024


Non-academic Experience
07.08.2012-07.08.2013 Naval Forces-Dardanelles Bosphorus and Garrison Commander
MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, Bosphorus Defense and Control, Garrison Command, (Public)
07.08.2011-07.08.2015 Chief of Naval Forces Plan Principles
MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, Strategic planning, Force and resource planning, International relations, Standardization and agreements, Law of the Sea, (Public)
09.08.2009-07.08.2011 Naval Forces Force Plan and Resource Management Department
MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, Defence and Force Planning, Resource Management, Project Management, (Public)
01.02.2005-19.09.2005 TURKISH LIAISON OFFICER
UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND, COOPERATION AND COORDINATION IN INTERNATIONAL COUNTER-TERRORISM OPERATIONS, (Other)
01.09.2004-07.08.2006 Director of the Command-and-Control Branch of the Naval Forces
MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, Command and Control Systems, Crisis Management, Operations Management, C4ISR, (Public)
19.08.2001-19.08.2004 Turkish National Military Representative Naval Plans Officer
NATO EUROPEAN COMMAND OF OPERATIONS (ACO)-SHAPE, International Operations Planning, Crisis Management, Personnel Management, (Other)
09.08.1999-01.08.2001 Chief of General Staff NATO Force Planning Officer
MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, National/International Defense and Force Planning, (Public)

Certificate

635082 The World Nuclear Industry Today-World Nuclear University, The recent developments in the Nuclear Industry and th future of Nuclear Industry in Turkey, Istanbul, Certificate, 24.04.2019 -26.04.2019 (International)



635088 Human Security in Difficult Times-Center for Trust, Peace & Social Relations-Coventry University, The role of international organisations in post-conflict settlements. Panels will include address themes


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including how to adapt human security for the 21st century, how to respond to non-state armed groups, the challenges of mass migration and displacement, and the role of human security in the Middle East. We anticipate that this year's conference will provide a unique forum for hearing the latest cutting edge research in the field as well as networking with leading scholars interested in human security from around the world., Istanbul Kadir Has University, Certificate, 17.10.2017 -20.10.2017 (International)


635097 Higher Dispatch and Administration Program-National Security Academy, To provide the members of the Armed Forces and senior managers in public administration with knowledge and planning skills on National Security issues; to reinforce the spirit of coordination and cooperation between military and civilian regulars, National Security Academy National Security Council Ankara, Certificate, 11.03.2011 -17.06.2011 (National)


Interview Article

650716 ON THE 485TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NAVAL VICTORY OF PREVEZA, WHILE REMEMBERING BARBAROS HAYREDDIN PASHA WITH "BLUE HOMELAND", Naval Warfare History and Naval Strategy, Public Relations, http://www.tesud.org.tr/makaleler, Interview Article, 27.09.2023 -27.09.2023 (National)



635140 485 of the Preveza Victory. Year: Barbaros Hayrettin Pasha Your Name Was Written Jewel Suya, 485th anniversary of the Preveza Victory. Year: Barbaros Hayrettin Pasha Your Name Was Written Jewel Suya, #tarih Magazine, Issue 105, September 2023, Interview Article, 04.09.2023 -04.09.2023 (National)



650724 TODAY IS ONE OF THE GLORIOUS DAYS... (E) MAJOR DR. MESUT ÖZEL WROTE... YAVUZ WAS REMOVED FROM THE NAVY, Turkish Navy's Great Warship Aspiration, Deniz Kartalı https://denizkartali.com/bugun-gunlerden-sanli-yavuz-e-tumamiral-dr-mesut-ozel-yazdi-yavuz-donanmadan-kopartildi.html, Interview Article, 07.06.2023 -07.06.2023 (National)



650725 TURKISH NAVAL FORCES' FOUNDATION DAY PREVEZA NAVAL VICTORY, BARBAROS HAYRETTIN PASHA AND PREVEZA NAVAL VICTORY COMMEMORATION EVENTS FROM PAST TO PRESENT, https://denizkartali.com/turk-deniz-kuvvetlerinin-kurulus-gunu-preveze-deniz-zaferi.html, Interview Article, 27.09.2022 -27.09.2022 (National)


Seminar

635137 The Maritime Implications of the Russian-Ukraine Conflict on Türkiye & The Implementation of the Montreux Convention was presented at Türkiye's Relations with NATO, Russia and the Black Sea Region organized by the American University of Paris and Istanbul Kent University on 10 November 2023., Istanbul Kent University, Seminar, 10.11.2023 -10.11.2023 (International)


My Speeches

652837 The Geostrategic and Geoeconomic Importance of the Island of Cyprus on the Historical Plane: The Development of the Turkish Naval Forces and the Policies of the USA and England, On the Historical Plane ? Geo-strategic and Geo-economic Importance of the Island of Cyprus: -The Development of the Turkish Naval Forces and the Policies of the USA and the UK, Marmara Sailing Club, My Speeches, 04.05.2024 -04.05.2024 (National)



650719 It was the 109th anniversary of his victory. Çanakkale on the Anniversary: The War That Led and Created the Nation, Istanbul Bar Association Center for Republican Studies (CUMER) Çanakkale and Atatürk Event 23 March 2024, Istanbul Bar Association Conference Hall, My Speeches, 23.03.2024 -23.03.2024 (National)



650717 Çanakkale on the 109th Anniversary of its Victory: The War That Created a Leader and a Nation, 18 March Çanakkale Victory and Martyrs' Remembrance Day, Istanbul Kent University, My Speeches, 18.03.2024 -18.03.2024 (National)



650718 Çanakkale on the 109th Anniversary of its Victory: The War That Created a Leader and a Nation, 18 March Çanakkale Victory and Martyrs' Remembrance Day, Maltepe University, My Speeches, 18.03.2024 -18.03.2024 (National)



650721 Atatürk and the Republic, Atatürk's Process of Establishing the Republic, Bosphorus Sea Culture Environment and Sports Platform, My Speeches, 13.11.2023 -13.11.2023 (National)


650720 The Republican Navy from Liberation to the Present, Istanbul Bar Association Center for Republican Studies Republican Achievements Event, Istanbul Bar Association Conference Hall, My Speeches, 01.12.2023 -01.11.2023 (National)



650722 Why the Republican Navy, The Importance of the Republican Navy, Bosphorus Sea Culture Environment and Sports Platform, My Speeches, 30.10.2023 -30.10.2023 (National)


650723 BARBAROS BAYRAMI, ON THE 485TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PREVEZA NAVAL VICTORY, WHILE REMEMBERING BARBAROS HAYRETTIN PASHA WITH "BLUE HOMELAND"History of the Naval War, Bosphorus Sea Culture Environment and Sports Platform, My Speeches, 25.09.2023 -25.09.2023 (National)



635135 Atatürk and the Republic, Analytical examination of the stages of the birth, development and implementation of the idea of establishing a republic in Atatürk's personal and professional education and duty processes., Maltepe University, My Speeches, 27.10.2022 -27.10.2022 (National)



635133 18 March Martyrs' Day and the 107th Anniversary of the Çanakkale Naval Victory, Analytical Analysis of the Strategic and Political Causes and Consequences of the Çanakkale Wars, Maltepe University, My Speeches, 18.03.2022 -18.03.2022 (National)



635128 Versatile Leader Atatürk, Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's Leadership characteristics are conveyed to students through the development process and practical examples., Maltepe University, My Speeches, 13.11.2019 -13.11.2019 (National)


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635130 18 March Martyrs' Day and the 104th Anniversary of the Çanakkale Naval Victory, Transferring the political and strategic development processes of the Çanakkale Wars and their effects on history with an analytical approach., Maltepe University, My Speeches, 20.03.2019 -20.03.2019 (National)


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Asst. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Özcan
GEDİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Political Theory and Political Philosophy, Turkish Political Life
AK
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayhan Koç
Erzincan Binali Yıldırım Üniversitesi
Education
Murat Koray
Assoc. Prof. Murat Koray
İSTANBUL KENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Logistics, Maritime Transportation Engineering, Marine Transportation, Marine Technology, Maritime Business Administration, Maritime Transportation and Freight Services, Ship Energy Efficiency, Ship Management

ASSOC.PROF.DR. MURAT KORAY; He graduated from the Turkish Naval Academy with a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1989. In 2021, he earned a second bachelor’s degree in international trade and logistics from the Faculty of Business Administration at Anadolu University. He completed his master’s degree in international affairs and security studies at the Turkish Naval War College between 2001 and 2003 and obtained an MBA from the Institute of Social Sciences at Kocaeli University in 2006. In 2019, he received his Ph.D. in Maritime Transportation Management Engineering (MTME) from the Institute of Graduate Studies at Piri Reis University. He was awarded the title of Assistant Professor in 2020 and currently serves as a full-time faculty member at Kent University, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences. He is the Head of both the International Trade and Logistics Department and the International Trade and Business Department. Additionally, he lectures part-time at Piri Reis University. Asst.Prof.Dr. Koray is an expert in submarines and MTME. His research interests include ship valuation, international affairs and security studies, green technologies, sustainable ship and shipyard design, decarbonization strategies, and smart fuels. He focuses particularly on energy, exergy, and entropy management in the context of maritime transportation.

Murat Jane
Asst. Prof. Dr. Murat Jane
İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi
International Relations, Contemporary Russian History, European Political History, Political History (Other)
Elnur İsmayıl
Dr. Elnur İsmayıl
İSTANBUL MEDENİYET ÜNİVERSİTESİ, SİYASAL BİLGİLER FAKÜLTESİ
Studies of the Turkic World, European and Region Studies, International Politics, Turkish Foreign Policy, International Security, Politics in International Relations
Ayşe Deniz Ünan Göktan
Dr. Ayşe Deniz Ünan Göktan
ACIBADEM ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Gender, Policy and Administration, Arts and Cultural Policy, Consumption and Everyday Life, Screen and Media Culture, Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies, Media Studies, Discourse and Pragmatics, Social Psychology, Qualitative Methods in Sociology, Social Movement, Sociology of Gender, Crime and Punishment , Gender and Politics, Political Communication, Communications and Media Policy, Criminological Theories, Studies on Education
AD
International Politics, European Union-Turkiye Relations
Aurélien Denizeau, siyaset bilimi ve uluslararası ilişkiler alanında doktora sahibidir. Araştırma konuları Türkiye, dış politikası ve Doğu Akdeniz jeopolitiğidir.
MC
Dr. Matthew S. Cohen
Merrimack College
International Politics

Matthew S. Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Honors Program specializing in political science at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts. He has previously published on Turkish politics, Turkish-Israeli relations, cyber-security policy, Russian foreign policy, international relations theory, delegitimization and lawfare, and Israeli security policy. Before entering academia, Matthew worked at the local, state, and federal levels of American government. He is additionally a local elected official. 

Begüm Burak
Political Communication, Political Science, Journalism Studies, Political Sociology, Turkish Political Life
Şebnem Udum
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şebnem Udum
Hacettepe Üniversitesi
Security Studies, International Security, International Relations
HY
History of The Republic of Turkiye, International Politics, Middle Eastern and North African History

Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak is a Turkey expert at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS) and the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (MDC) at Tel Aviv University. He received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University’s School of History and is a lecturer there, as well as at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Ariel University. Dr. Cohen Yanarocak is the editor of Turkeyscope: Insights on Turkish Affairs. In May 2015, he was awarded the Dan David Prize Scholarship in the category of “Past: Retrieving the Past, Historians and Their Sources.” He is the author of The Evolution of the Turkish School Textbooks from Atatürk to Erdoğan, published by Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, in September 2022.

Murat Yorulmaz
Asst. Prof. Dr. Murat Yorulmaz
Havsa Meslek Yüksekokulu
International Relations, Regional Studies
Cansu Arısoy Gedik
Asst. Prof. Dr. Cansu Arısoy Gedik
İSTANBUL KENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Sociology of Gender, Political Sociology, Communication Sociology, Entertainment Sociology, Communication Theories, Social Media Applications and Analysis, Political Advertising, Political Communication, Conflict Resolution in International Relations, Communication Studies
Özker Kocadal
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özker Kocadal
ULUSLARARASI KIBRIS ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Humanitarian Disasters, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Turkish Foreign Policy, Conflict Resolution in International Relations
AC
Political Science
Hacı Mehmet Boyraz
Dr. Hacı Mehmet Boyraz
KAHRAMANMARAŞ SÜTÇÜ İMAM ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Contemporary European History, European Union, International Security, Turkish Foreign Policy, European Union-Turkiye Relations

Hacı Mehmet Boyraz, doktorasını Sakarya Üniversitesi Uluslararası İlişkiler bölümünde tamamladı. SETA’nın İstanbul ve Berlin ofislerinde araştırmacı olarak çalıştıktan sonra TRT’de ve İletişim Başkanlığı’nda uzman olarak görev yaptı. İstanbul Medipol Üniversitesi’nde ve Ankara Medipol Üniversitesi’nde Türkçe lisans; İstanbul Esenyurt Üniversitesi’nde İngilizce yüksek lisans dersleri verdi. Şu anda Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler bölümünde öğretim üyesi olarak görev yapmaktadır.

BP
Politics in International Relations

Beata Piskorska, Ph.D, is an associate professor of Political science at the Institute of Political Science and Administration of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. In years 2021-2024 she has served as Vice-Rector of KUL for Students, Doctoral Students and Development and since 2024 she has served as Vice-Rector of KUL for Students and Internationalizations. She is an expert of Team Europe at the European Commission Representation in Poland, president of the ERIA Association for Education and International Research, a member of the Advisory Team of the Minister of Education and Science for the financing of international scientific cooperation, a member of the Council for Innovative Social and Economic Development of Lublin at the President of the City of Lublin. She is the head of the Center for Research on Diplomacy of the Catholic University of Lublin.
Her research interests encompass the international relations, European integration, foreign and security policy of the European Union, the eastern policy of the EU and the position and identity of the EU on the international arena, soft power and public diplomacy. She is the author of dozens of scientific publications. 

Furkan Kaya
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Furkan Kaya
YEDİTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Turkish Foreign Policy, International Relations, History of The Republic of Turkiye
MM
International Politics


Dr. Mark Meirowitz is a Professor at State University of New Tork (SUNY) Maritime College, a business lawyer, and an expert on Turkish Foreign Policy and International Relations. He holds a doctorate in Political Science from Fordham University and a JD, Summa Cum Laude (second in class and Law Review) from Brooklyn Law School.
Dr. Meirowitz specializes in Turkish Foreign Policy, U.S.-Turkish Relations, international Relations, American Foreign Policy and Constitutional Law. As the recipient of the SUNY Levin Fellowship, he taught English conversation to 25 Turkish professors while in residence at Istanbul Technical University. He also taught a graduate course in Turkish Foreign Policy to doctoral students at a Turkish University.
Last month, his chapter on “Challenges and Prospects in Turkish-US Relations” was included in a major new text on Turkish Foreign Policy. His doctoral dissertation was on the law of the sea.
He has been a panelist and moderator at numerous conferences and panels on Turkish Foreign Policy, including the Turkey Focus Group of the National Defense University, Institute of National Security Studies and at the annual conferences of the Transatlantic Studies Association (of which he serves as a member of the Management Committee).
Dr. Meirowitz is sought after and frequently appears in the US, Turkish and other international media as an expert on issues related to Turkish Politics, American Domestic Politics, American Law, international Relations and American Foreign Policy.

Murat Önsoy
Prof. Dr. Murat Önsoy
HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Regional Studies
Mehmet Hakan Keskin
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Hakan Keskin
İstanbul Kent Üniversitesi
European Union, European Union-Turkiye Relations, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
BD
Prof. Dr. Barış Doster
MARMARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ
International Politics, Turkish Foreign Policy, Political Science, Political History
Namig Mammadov
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Namig Mammadov
Azerbaijan National Scientific Academy
Türkish Political Hİstory
YO
Prof. Dr. Yaşar Onay
İSTANBUL KENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Defence Studies
Ahmet İlkay Ceyhan
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmet İlkay Ceyhan
İSTANBUL KENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Digital Advertising, Political Communication, Political Advertising, New Media, Communication Studies, Communication Sociology

Ahmet İlkay Ceyhan undertook his undergraduate studies at Charles de Gaulle University in Lille, France, before progressing to the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bahçeşehir University (Istanbul). He subsequently attained a Master’s degree in European Union and International Relations at L’Institut Européen Des Hautes Études Internationales in Nice, France. He then pursued a PhD at İstanbul University Faculty of Communication, with a thesis on “Public Diplomacy in Political Communication.” Between 2013 and 2015, he worked as a researcher at universities in the United States, Hungary, and Poland. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Political Communication and chairs the Public Relations and Advertising Department at İstanbul Kent University. His areas of expertise include political communication, nation-branding, digital communication, media diplomacy, public diplomacy, propaganda, agenda-setting, and digital politics. Additionally, he provides communication consultancy to various institutions in crisis communication, strategic communication, corporate communication, and political advertising.

ZU
International Relations (Other), Turkish Foreign Policy

Zuhal Mert Uzuner is a professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Marmara University. She teaches Introduction to International Relations and Seminar on Southeast Europe, International Organizations, EU-Turkey Relations, and Greek-Turkish Relations. Uzuner studies foreign policy analysis, Greek foreign policy, Turkish foreign policy, Balkan and Mediterranean politics, and Greek-Turkish relations. She has a B.A., M.A., and PhD degrees from Marmara University International Relations and an M.A. from Southeast European Studies at Democritus University of Thrace, Law School, Greece. She knows English and Greek and has written several articles, books, and papers in Turkish and English. She is the author of Anapofeuktoi Sintrofoi o Ellino Italikos Polemos ston Tourkiko Tipo Oktovrios Dekemvrios 1940 (published by Epikentro in 2016) and editor of Role of Image in Greek Turkish Relations (published in 2018 by Peter Lang). Zuhal Mert Uzuner, who has been the Director of MURCIR (Marmara University International Relations Research Center) since 2023, also participates in Track II diplomacy initiatives and has been a member of the Eastern Mediterranean Initiative since 2021 and the Turkish Greek Forum since 2022.

GT
International Politics
Armağan Öztürk
Prof. Dr. Armağan Öztürk
ARTVİN ÇORUH ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Political Sociology, Political Theory and Political Philosophy, Political Movement, Political Science, Comparative Political Movement
H. Tarık Oğuzlu
Prof. Dr. H. Tarık Oğuzlu
İSTANBUL AYDIN ÜNİVERSİTESİ
International Security, International Politics, International Relations, Politics in International Relations, American Studies, Turkish Foreign Policy, European Union-Turkiye Relations
Klevis Kolasi
Prof. Dr. Klevis Kolasi
ANKARA UNIVERSITY
International Politics, Intellectual History of Politics, Political Economy and Social Change, Politics in International Relations, International Relations Theories, Social Theory
Tolga Bilener
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tolga Bilener
GALATASARAY ÜNİVERSİTESİ
International Foundation, International Politics, Security Studies, Far East Studies, International Security, Middle East Studies
FA
Assoc. Prof. Dr. F. Ahu Özmen Akalın
İSTANBUL KENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Social Psychology, Social Change, Youth Sociology , Sociology
AK
Prof. Dr. Ahu Tuğba Karabulut
ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY
Budget and Financial Planning
Ata Atun
Prof. Dr. Ata Atun
İnternational relations
Civil Engineering, Engineering, Turkish Foreign Policy, Middle East Studies

Ata Atun, Orta eğitimini Ankara Koleji, Magosa Namık Kemal Lisesi ve Şişli Koleji’nde tamamlayarak, İnşaat Mühendisliği Lisans eğitimini Bağdat Üniversitesi'nde 1970 yılında, Lisansüstü eğitimini California’daki Century Üniversitesi’nde 1987 yılında ve Doktora eğitimini de Texas’daki Century Üniversitesinde 1989 yılında tamamlamış ve 1994 yılında Fulbright bursu ile Washington’da Doktora üstü çalışma yapmıştır. 2007 yılında, Prag’daki Charles Üniversitesinde, Avrupa Gazetecilik Enstitüsü eğitimlerine katılmıştır.
2012 yılında Girne Amerikan Üniversitesinde, Uluslararası İlişkiler Ana Bilim dalında ikinci Yüksek Lisansını ve 2018 yılında da ikinci Doktora eğitimini tamamlamıştır.
2020 yılında İngiltere’de Rhodec International School of Interior Design’da uzun süredir devam ettirdiği İç Mimarlık Lisans eğitimini tamamlamıştır.

Mücahitliğini 1970 yılında Magosa’da yapmış olup, Barış Harekatına Mücahit Havan Takım Komutanı olarak katılmıştır.

1976 yılında yapılan Kıbrıs Türk Federe Devleti (KTFD) Millet Meclisi seçimlerinde Magosa Milletvekili seçilmiştir. KTFD Meclisinde 5 yıl süre ile Hukuk ve Siyasi İşleri Komisyonu üyeliği, Başkan yardımcılığı ve Başkanlığı görevlerinde bulunmuştur. TBMM’de ortak Komisyon toplantılarına KTFD Meclisini temsilen katılmıştır.

Akademik hayatına 1991 yılında Yakın Doğu Üniversitesinde başlamış olup, İnşaat Mühendisliği dalında Yakın Doğu Üniversitesinde Yardımcı Doçent, Doçent ve Profesör, Uluslararası İlişkiler dalında Kıbrıs İlim Üniversitesinde Doktor Öğretim Üyesi ve Doçent olmuştur. Uzmanı olduğu İnşaat Mühendisliği, Uluslararası Politika ve Kıbrıs Tarihi konularında 10 adet Ders kitabı, 4 adet Ders-Notu, Tarih ve Politika-Siyaset içerikli 35 adet kitabı, 185 adet tez, bildiri ve makalesi bulunmaktadır. Makale ve çalışmalarına 100’den fazla uluslararası atıf yapılmıştır. Kıbrıs, Orta Doğu ve Doğu Akdeniz uzmanı olup 2002 yılından beri sürekli olarak Kıbrıs Siyaseti ve Uluslararası Politika üzerinde 2 bin sekiz yüzden fazla köşe yazısı KKTC, Türkiye, Almanya, İngiltere ve ABD’de basılan gazeteler ile haber sitelerinde yayınlanmış olup, köşe yazılarına devam etmektedir. Türkiye’de AVİM, SETAM, ASAM, TURAN-SAM ve benzeri “Düşünce Kuruluşları” ile bazı ortak çalışmalarda bulunmuştur.

KKTC I. Cumhurbaşkanı Rauf R. Denktaş’a, III. Cumhurbaşkanı Dr. Derviş Eroğlu’na, KKTC V. Cumhurbaşkanı Ersin Tatar’a, KKTC Başbakan Yardımcısı Serdar Denktaş’a ve Dış İşleri Bakanına Politik Danışmanlık görevi ifa etmiş, ortak çalışmalarda yer almıştır.

Annan Planı çerçevesince 2004 yılında yapılan toplumlararası görüşmelerde KKTC adına görüşmecilik görevini yapmış olup, Aralık 2005 tarihinde Türk Dünyası Araştırmaları, Uluslararası İlimler Akademisi Bilim Kurulu üyeliğine, 2013 yılında da Türk Dünyası Medya Formu Başkanlığına seçilmiştir.

2024 yılı Şubat ayına kadar Kıbrıs İlim Üniversitesi’nde Mühendislik Fakültesi Dekanlığı görevini ifa etmiştir. Halen Rauf Denktaş Üniversitesi Mütevelli heyeti Danışmanlığı görevini ifa etmektedir.



BE
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Berk Esen
Sabancı Üniversitesi
Comparative Political Movement, Comparative Political Institutions
Mesut Şöhret
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mesut Şöhret
Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey
Security Studies, Globalisation, European Union, American Studies, African Studies, International Politics, International Relations Theories, International Law, International Security, International Migration, Turkish Foreign Policy, Middle East Studies
ST
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Segâh Tekin
Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi
International Migration, American Studies, Regional Studies
Helin Sarı Ertem
Assoc. Prof. Helin Sarı Ertem
İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi
International Politics, Political Science

Helin Sarı-Ertem, 1998 yılında Marmara Üniversitesi, İngilizce Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü’nden mezun oldu. Yüksek Lisansını 1999’da British Council bursu ile Londra’da, City Üniversitesi, Gazetecilik bölümünde yaptı. 1999-2002 yılları arasında televizyon gazetecisi olarak çalıştıktan sonra, 2003 yılında kabul edildiği Marmara Üniversitesi, Uluslararası İlişkiler doktora programını 2010 yılında başarıyla tamamladı.
2005-2015 yılları arasında Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü kadrosunda yer alan Sarı-Ertem, 2015 yılından bu yana İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi, Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü’nde önce Dr. Öğretim Üyesi; 2020’den bu yana da Doçent olarak görev yapmaktadır. Akademik ilgi alanları; Türk-Amerikan ilişkileri, Amerikan dış politikası, Ortadoğu, kimlik-güvenlik ilişkisi ve Uİ Teorileri üzerinde yoğunlaşmaktadır.
Sarı Ertem’in çeşitli dergi ve kitaplarda İngilizce ve Türkçe yayınlanan makale ve kitap bölümlerinin yanı sıra, Fuat Aksu ile Analyzing Foreign Policy Crises in Turkey: Conceptual, Theoretical and Practical Discussions (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), Özden Zeynep Oktav ile GCC -Turkey Relations: Dawn of a New Era (Cambridge: GRC Publishing, 2015) ve 2000’li Yıllarda Türk Dış Politikası: Fırsatlar, Riskler ve Krizler (İstanbul: Nobel Yayınları, 2015) adlı derleme kitapları; ayrıca Suna Gülfer Ihlamur-Öner ile Uluslararası Siyasetin Sosyal Politikası, (Social Theory of International Politics – Alexander Wendt) (Istanbul: Küre Yayınları, 2012) adlı çeviri kitabı bulunmaktadır. 

Dr. Zafer Çeler
ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY
Turkish Political Life
Eda Tutak
Asst. Prof. Dr. Eda Tutak
GİRESUN ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Politics in International Relations, International Law, Security Studies, International Relations
Mehmet Babacan
Dr. Mehmet Babacan
YILDIZ TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ, REKTÖRLÜK
International Security, Turkish Foreign Policy, Middle East Studies, Regional Studies, International Relations, Political Science

Mehmet Babacan completed his PhD in 2025 at Bursa Uludag University with a thesis on Jerusalem and Palestine studies. He works as an independent researcher. He has various national and international publications about Turkish foreign policy, Israeli-Palestinian relations, US Middle East policy, and other regional foreign policy issues. He has been working as a “PhD Lecturer” at Yildiz Technical University since 2026. Babacan has also served as a “Researcher”, “Project Assistant” and “Project Coordinator” in YOK (Council of Higher Education) and EU projects.

International Relations (Other)


Soli Özel

Soli Özel holds a BA in Economics from Benningon College (1981) and an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS-1983).

A senior lecturer at Istanbul Kadir Has University, Özel is now a fellow at Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna where he was a “Europe’s Futures” fellow in 2021-2022. In the year of the pandemic, he taught a course at the American University in Central Asia (AUCA) and at the Menton campus of Sciences-Po. The same year he also hosted two series of webinars for Institut Montaigne on the American elections and the changing geopolitics of the Middle East. He was a Bernstein Fellow at the Schell Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School and a visiting lecturer in the Political Science Department of Yale. He has been a columnist at Nokta magazine and GazetePazar, Yeni Binyıl, Habertürk and Sabah newspapers. Currently he writes for Deutsche Welle-Turkish, Politikyol and does a weekly commentary on world affairs for GAzeteDuvar TV. He is also a contributor to the blog of Institut Montaigne. He held fellowships at Oxford, the EU Institute of Strategic Studies and was a Fisher Family Fellow of the “Future of Diplomacy Program” at the Belfer Center of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He taught at UC Santa Cruz, SAIS, University of Washington, Northwestern University, Hebrew University, SciencesPo-PSIA, and Yale. In Turkey he taught at Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Bilgi Üniversitesi and Kadir Has Universitesi. He was a Richard von Weizsacker fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin between 2015-2017 and a visiting fellow at Institut Montaigne in Paris in 2018 where he is a non -resident senior fellow.

His co-authored book with Michael T. Rock, Elite Origins of Development and Democracy was published by Routledge in December 2023.

He is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

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Dr. Selahattin Aydın
ISTANBUL KENT UNIVERSITY
Family Resources Education, Counselling, Wellbeing and Community Services, Social Program Evaluation, Social Work (Other), Disabled Groups, Social Policy (Other), People With Disability, Sight Disabled Education, Welfare, Insurance, Disability and Social Security Law, Social Work
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burak Şakir Şeker
ANKARA HACI BAYRAM VELİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
International Security, International Relations, Turkish Foreign Policy, Political History (Other), International Politics
ES
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emre Saral
HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, ATATÜRK İLKELERİ VE İNKILAP TARİHİ ENSTİTÜSÜ
Turkish Foreign Policy, European Political History, History of The Republic of Turkiye, Hungarian Language, Literature and Culture
Ali Oğuz Diriöz
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Oğuz Diriöz
TOBB EKONOMİ VE TEKNOLOJİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Entrepreneurship, Climate and Water Policies, Regional Development and Globalisation in International Economics, International Relations Theories, Globalisation, Regional Studies, International Relations, International Politics, Political Science
BP
Asst. Prof. Dr. Bahadır Pehlivantürk
TOBB EKONOMİ VE TEKNOLOJİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
International Politics, Studies of Asian Society
Hazal Papuççular
Turkish Political Life, Turkish Foreign Policy
MJ
Turkish Foreign Policy

Editor-in-Chief and Co-founder of the Adapt Institute is a PhD candidate at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, specializing in Türkiye’s security environment. Since 2013,
he has conducted extensive research on Turkish foreign policy, bilateral and multilateral relations, and terrorism. In Türkiye he has cooperated with the Wise People
Center for Strategic Studies (BILGESAM). Matúš furthered his expertise by studying the Turkish language at Istanbul Medeniyet University. His insights into Turkish politics have made him a frequent contributor to Slovak and Czech television and media. He authored a comprehensive analysis titled "Turkey and the EU 2030: Prospects for the Development of
Relations from the Perspective of Slovak Interests" for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. He remains an active publisher on Türkiye’s foreign policy and security, with a chapter in a book, "Turkish-American Relations in the 21 st Century," published in 2025 being the latest.  Besides that he published numerous scientific articles and research studies
on influence operations, such as “Business, Religion And Erdoğan: Influence Operations Of Türkiye In Bosnia And Herzegovina”, “Disinformation Resilience
Index in Central and Eastern Europe” , where he assessed Russia’s influence operations in Slovakia, or “Mapping Hungarian influence in Slovakia and Czech
Republic”. 

Mortaza Ojaghlou
Dr. Mortaza Ojaghlou
istanbul aydın üniversitesi
Economic Thought, Macroeconomic Theory, Econometric and Statistical Methods

Doç. Dr. Murteza Ocaklı, ekonomi ve finans alanında uzmanlaşmış bir akademisyendir. Lisans eğitimini tamamladıktan sonra, yüksek lisansını 2015 yılında ve doktorasını 2019 yılında Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi İktisat Bölümü'nde tamamlamıştır. Akademik kariyeri boyunca makroekonomik modeller, sayısal finans, para politikaları, döviz kuru dinamikleri ve finansal piyasalar üzerine yoğunlaşmıştır.

Eğitimi süresince uluslararası akademik deneyim kazanan Doç. Dr. Ocaklı, 2014-2015 yıllarında Polonya’daki Warsaw School of Economics'te, 2015-2016 yıllarında Almanya’daki Berlin School of Economics and Law’da ve 2016-2017 yıllarında İtalya’daki Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope’de çalışmalar yürütmüştür. Bu süreçte uluslararası ekonomi ve finans konularında derinlemesine araştırmalar yaparak akademik bakış açısını genişletmiştir.

Şu anda İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi Ekonomi ve Finans Bölüm Başkanı olarak görev yapmakta olan Doç. Dr. Ocaklı, ekonomi ve finans alanlarında dersler vermekte, lisans ve lisansüstü seviyede öğrencilere danışmanlık yapmaktadır. Araştırmalarında özellikle ARDL ve NARDL modelleri ile döviz kuru geçişkenliği, enflasyon dinamikleri, AR-GE harcamaları ve dış ticaret ilişkileri gibi konulara odaklanmaktadır.

Akademik çalışmaları uluslararası düzeyde de büyük ilgi görmüş olup, Q1 ve Q2 kategorisinde yer alan saygın bilimsel dergilerde yayımlanmıştır. Özellikle döviz kuru geçişkenliği ile enflasyon arasındaki teorik ve ampirik bağlantıları inceleyen çalışmaları ve hisse senedi piyasaları arasındaki oynaklık yayılmaları üzerine yaptığı araştırmalar, ekonomi literatürüne önemli katkılar sağlamaktadır.

Bilimsel katkılarının yanı sıra, akademik disiplinin gelişimine yönelik çeşitli konferans ve seminerlere katılmakta, ulusal ve uluslararası bilimsel dergilerde hakemlik yapmaktadır. Ekonomi teorilerini matematiksel modellerle birleştirerek politika yapıcılar ve uygulamacılar için somut öneriler sunmayı hedefleyen Doç. Dr. Murteza Ocaklı, akademik çalışmalarına devam etmekte ve ekonomi bilimine katkı sağlamaya devam etmektedir.

Yadıgar Naghıyev
Post Graduate Yadıgar Naghıyev
BANDIRMA ON YEDİ EYLÜL ÜNİVERSİTESİ SOSYAL BİLİMLER ENSTİTÜSÜ
International Politics, Political Movement, Political Theory and Political Philosophy, Political Science Methodology, Intellectual History of Politics
Teymur Gasımlı
Dr. Teymur Gasımlı
BAKÜ DEVLET ÜNİVERSİTESİ, ULUSLARARASI İLİŞKİLER VE EKONOMİ FAKÜLTESİ
Politics in International Relations, International Relations

Teymur Şahin oğlu Gasimli, 30 Nisan 1988 tarihinde Azerbaycan Cumhuriyeti’nin Göyçay bölgesinde dünyaya gelmiştir. Azerbaycan vatandaşı olan Gasimli, temel eğitimini tamamladıktan sonra 2005 yılında Azerbaycan Uluslararası Üniversitesi’nin Tarih ve Toplum Fakültesine kabul edilmiş ve burada aldığı lisans eğitimi sonucunda 2009 yılında başarıyla mezun olmuştur. Lisans eğitimi süresince tarihsel süreçler, toplumsal yapı ve bölgesel jeopolitik dinamikler üzerine çalışmalar yürüterek akademik ilgi alanlarını şekillendirmiştir.
2015–2017 yılları arasında Türkiye’de İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü bünyesinde Uluslararası İlişkiler ve Güvenlik Çalışmaları alanında yüksek lisans eğitimini tamamlamıştır. Yüksek lisans tezi kapsamında özellikle Güney Kafkasya bölgesindeki jeopolitik gelişmeler, Azerbaycan-İran ilişkileri ve bölgesel güvenlik konularına odaklanmış, bu süreçte saha araştırmaları ve literatür incelemeleri yaparak uzmanlığını derinleştirmiştir.
11 Şubat 2018 tarihinde İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü bünyesinde Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Anabilim Dalı doktora programına kabul edilerek,“AZERBAYCAN -İRAN İLİŞKİLERİNDE (1991-2019) ERMENİSTAN MESELESİ” doktora tezi savunmuş doktora unvanını kazanmıştır (2025). Bu bağlamda, Güney Kafkasya’nın uluslararası sistemdeki rolü, bölgesel güvenlik mimarileri ve Azerbaycan-İran ilişkileri üzerine akademik araştırmalar yürütmektedir.Gasimli, çok iyi derecede Azerbaycan Türkçesi, Türkiye Türkçesi ve Rusça bilmekte; ayrıca İngilizceyi orta düzeyde kullanabilmektedir. Akademik çalışmaları, uluslararası ilişkiler, güvenlik çalışmaları ve bölgesel jeopolitik analizler çerçevesinde yoğunlaşmaktadır. Uluslararası sempozyum ve konferanslarda bildiriler sunmuş, çeşitli akademik makale ve projelerde yer alarak alanına katkı sağlamıştır.

TB
International Politics, Turkish Economic Geography
Bahar Senem Çevik
Political Communication, International and Development Communication, Mass Media, Crisis Communication, Political Psychology, Turkish Foreign Policy

Senem B. Çevik, Ph.D, is a communication scholar specializing in public diplomacy and strategic communication. Her research focuses on the intersection of identity, communication and psychology with an emphasis. Her recent publications examine the role of media content in Turkish politics from a lens of identity politics. She published in journals including Middle East Critique, Caucasus Survey, Turkish Studies, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies and International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. She is the co-editor of Turkey’s Public Diplomacy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015). 

Yusuf Ertuğral
Professional Yusuf Ertuğral
EURO Politika Dergisi
Turkish Foreign Policy, European Union-Turkiye Relations, International Politics, European Union, American Studies, International Relations, Sociology of Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism
Yusuf Sayın
Prof. Dr. Yusuf Sayın
Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi
Contemporary History of Iran, European Studies, Regional Studies, Turkish Foreign Policy, Middle East Studies, Globalisation

Born in Konya in 1984, Yusuf SAYIN received his Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Selçuk University in 2007; and his Master's degree in International Relations from the same university's Institute of Social Sciences in 2011 with his thesis titled "Religion and International Relations: Islam's Foreign Policy Theory". He completed his doctorate in International Relations at Selçuk University in 2015 with his thesis titled "Cooperation Opportunities between Türkiye and Iran in the Middle East". In April 2015, he first joined the Department of Economics at Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University. In the same year, Mr. Sayın was appointed as an Assistant Professor and Founding Head of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, and held administrative positions such as Erasmus Institutional Coordinator and Director of the European Union Center at the same university. He has authored several books, including “Cooperation Opportunities between Türkiye and Iran in the Middle East” (2015), “Readings on International Relations” (2016), “Essays on Foreign Policy” (2016), and “Islamic Foreign Policy Theory from the Perspective of International Relations” (2023). He has also edited several works, including “International Student Life in Konya” (2022), “Contemporary Political Trends” (2021), “International Public Policy - Concept, Theory, Actors, Applications” (2021), and “Globalization - A Basic Text” (2019). Additionally, he has published numerous book chapters, articles, papers, and translations in the fields of international relations and foreign policy; he has appeared on numerous national TV and radio programs, written columns for various media outlets, provided corporate consultancy services, and held leadership and board membership positions in civil society organizations. Appointed to the rank of Professor on January 8, 2026, he currently serves as a faculty member in the Department of Political History, Political Science and International Relations Division, at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Necmettin Erbakan University. He speaks English and has intermediate proficiency in Arabic and German. He is married and has two children.

ZA
Asst. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Arıkanlı
GALATASARAY ÜNİVERSİTESİ
International Politics, Political Geography in Political History, African Political History, International Relations
BA
Asst. Prof. Dr. Barış Adıbelli
DUMLUPINAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ
International Relations, Political Science
Muhittin Tolga Ozsaglam
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Muhittin Tolga Ozsaglam
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OF LEFKE
International Relations, International Security, Regional Studies
Murat Can Pehlivanoğlu
Assoc. Prof. Murat Can Pehlivanoğlu
İSTANBUL KENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Corporations and Associations Law, Commercial Law (Other), Commercial Law

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat Can PEHLİVANOĞLU, LL.M. is Associate Professor of Commercial Law, attorney at law and author. Dr. Pehlivanoğlu graduated from San Francisco Golden Gate University School of Law (S.J.D. (2018)), İstanbul Bilgi University (LL.M. (2015), LL.B. (2013)) and V.K.V. Koç High School (2009). Pehlivanoğlu is a former student at University of San Francisco School of Law (2016) and London School of Economics and Political Science School of Law (2011), and a former researcher at City University of Hong Kong (2016), Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf (2017) and University of Warwick Coventry (2024). He holds several administrative positions in universities, and received grants for his research.

Dr. Pehlivanoglu has published widely on commercial law, focusing primarily on shareholder disputes, commercial fraud, corporate finance and beneficial ownership. His leading monographs are Paravan Şirket (Shell Company) (On İki Levha Yayıncılık, 2023) and Non- Pecuniary Private Benefits in Publicly Traded Corporations: How Involuntary Dissolution Statute May Be the Solution (Brill Nijhoff, 2024). Pehlivanoğlu's academic articles have been published in leading peer- reviewed journals in Turkish and English. He teaches international corporate law, commercial law, European Union law and American law courses at several universities, including Istanbul Kent University and MEF University Faculty of Law.

Murat Can Pehlivanoğlu is a frequent speaker at academic conferences, and is hosted by Turkish media and various institutions, including Dubai Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of Society of Legal Scholars (United Kingdom) and Law and Society Association (United States) professional associations, and university representative at European Law Faculties Association (Belgium). Pehlivanoğlu is admitted to Istanbul Bar Association and Union of Turkish Bar Associations.

YK
Dr. Yasemin Konukçu
YENI YUZYIL UNIVERSITY
Regional Studies
PY
Turkish Economic Geography
Res. Assist. Dr. Selim Öterbülbül
ANKARA UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Middle East Studies, Regional Studies, Politics in International Relations, Studies of Asian Society, Far East Studies, International Relations

Selim Öterbülbül is a research assistant at the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science, University of Ankara. He has a PhD from the Department of International Relations, Dokuz Eylul University, and MA degree from the Middle East Studies, Middle East Technical University. His research interests include China’s foreign policy, Sino-Middle Eastern relations, Sino-Turkish relations, foreign policy analysis, and the grand strategy concept.

Ruhengiz Aliyeva
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ruhengiz Aliyeva
Assoc. Prof. Ruhengiz ALİYEVA (Nahçıvan Devlet Öğretmenler Enstitüsü, AZERBAIJAN)
Population Trends and Policies, History Education
AB
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arda Baş
BOLU ABANT İZZET BAYSAL ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Turkish Foreign Policy, Contemporary History of Middle East
Mehmet Emir
International Migration, Regional Studies, European Union, International Relations, Political Economy, Politics in International Relations, International Security
US
Cybersecurity Policy

She works as an associate professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. She holds a PhD and a postdoctoral degree in social sciences in the discipline of sociology. Her areas of specialization include the sociology of technology, sociology of security, sociology of education, and cybersecurity.
For many years, she has collaborated with Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, both in academic research and teaching. She has completed six research internships there and participated in several international scientific projects. Additionally, she has worked with other Italian universities, such as those in Bari, Udine, Teramo, Messina, and Venice. More recently, she has also begun collaborating with Universidade Lusófona in Lisbon and two universities in Spain—Universidad de Granada and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
She regularly travels to deliver lectures as part of the Erasmus+ program, teaching in both English and Italian. She is fluent in both languages.
She is the author or co-author of several large-scale social studies conducted in cooperation with the business sector, focusing on Poles' attitudes toward new technologies and disinformation. For several years, she has actively collaborated with the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (PIIT) and the Digital Poland Foundation.
At present, she is employed at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin at the Institute of Political Science and Administration. Since 2021, she has also been affiliated with the Academic Center for Cybersecurity Policy at the War Studies University, where she serves as the Head of the Center for Cybersecurity Strategy and Education. She is also currently collaborating with NASK – National Research Institute (Narodowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa), a state research institute, where she conducts social research on the internet. Additionally, she serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal dot.pl (journaldot.pl).

Abdülkadir Şencan
Asst. Prof. Dr. Abdülkadir Şencan
FATİH SULTAN MEHMET VAKIF ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İKTİSADİ VE İDARİ BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ
Marketing, Service Marketing
Erdem Eren
Dr. Erdem Eren
İSTANBUL RUMELİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Regional Studies, Late Modern Balkan History, Economic Diplomacy, Early Modern Balkan History, International Relations (Other), Turkish Foreign Policy, Political Science, Contemporary Balkan History, International Migration

Dr. / Müdür V.

Rumeli Çalışmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (RUÇAM)

İstanbul Rumeli Üniversitesi

HR
Dr. Hande Ramazanoğulları
İSTANBUL KENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Political Movement, Philosophy of State, Constitutional and Political Theories, European and Region Studies, Comparative Political Movement, Comparative Political Institutions, Ethics, Enlightenment
Teoman Ertuğrul Tulun
Dr. Teoman Ertuğrul Tulun
Avrasya İncelemeleri Merkezi
International Politics, International Migration, International Law, Political Sociology
Prof. Dr. Ercan Özen
USAK UNIVERSITY
Financial Markets and Institutions, Green Economy, Financial Institutions, Commercial Banking, Investment Banking, Environment and Climate Finance, Behavioural Finance, Finance, Financial Risk Management, Household Finance and Financial Literacy, Investment and Portfolio Management, Capital Market, International Finance, Financial Economy
NK
Prof. Dr. Nergiz Özkural Köroğlu
ÜSKÜDAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Turkish Foreign Policy, International Security, European Union
SD
Asst. Prof. Dr. Selin Dingiloğlu
ÜSKÜDAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Political Movement, Comparative Political Movement, Political Science
SK
Asst. Prof. Dr. Selin Karana
ÜSKÜDAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Turkish Foreign Policy, International Relations Theories
HA
Prof. Dr. Havva Kök Arslan
ÜSKÜDAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İNSAN VE TOPLUM BİLİMLERİ FAKÜLTESİ, FELSEFE BÖLÜMÜ
International Politics, Peace Studies
Güler Kalay
Dr. Güler Kalay
ÜSKÜDAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İNSAN VE TOPLUM BİLİMLERİ FAKÜLTESİ
Humanitarian Disasters, Conflict and Peacebuilding
Ömer Göksel İşyar
Prof. Dr. Ömer Göksel İşyar
Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi
Middle East Studies, Turkish Foreign Policy, Studies of the Turkic World, International Politics, International Relations
Erdem Özlük
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erdem Özlük
SELÇUK ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İKTİSADİ VE İDARİ BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ, ULUSLARARASI İLİŞKİLER BÖLÜMÜ, ULUSLARARASI İLİŞKİLER PR.
International Security, International Relations Theories, Politics in International Relations, Political Science, Globalisation
MD
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Dalar
BOLU ABANT İZZET BAYSAL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İKTİSADİ VE İDARİ BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ, ULUSLARARASI İLİŞKİLER BÖLÜMÜ
International History, International Law, Terrorism in International Relations
İsmail Köse
Prof. Dr. İsmail Köse
KARADENİZ TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Middle East Studies, Turkish Foreign Policy, Political Science

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.

Uğur Yasin Asal
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Uğur Yasin Asal
İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi
International Politics, Political Economy Theory, Political Science, International Security, International Relations, International Institutions
Asst. Prof. Dr. Uğur Yasin ASAL is Political Scientist at Istanbul Ticaret University and Head of the Political Science and International Relations Department as well. He has several scientific books and book chapters such as; “Russian Foreign Policy towards Baltic States: Cooperation or Discourse?”, “Basic Concepts of International Relations” and “Security Problems in Asia and its Reflections”. He has also scientific articles on international relations, political systems, security and strategic studies which have been published in various journals. His research interests are international security, strategy, regional conflict management, prosperity, G20 and international political economy. He is member of Council of International Relations and TOBB (The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey) Istanbul Young Entrepreneurs Assembly Research & Publications Commission.
GT
Prof. Dr. Gökhan Telatar
BOLU ABANT İZZET BAYSAL ÜNİVERSİTESİ
American Studies, International Politics, Turkish Foreign Policy, Regional Studies
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