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.

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.

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.

İspanyolca, Fransızca

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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”. 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yusuf Sayın graduated from the Department of International Relations at Selcuk University in 2007 and completed his Master’s Degree Program at the same University as a science-expert of International Relations in 2011. His master thesis was on the role of religion in international relations and IR theories. He also completed his PhD thesis on “The Opportunities of Cooperation for Turkey and Iran in The Region of the Middle East at the same University”. In April of 2015, he was appointed to Department of International Relations of Economics and Administrative Faculty of Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University as an Assistant Professor Doctor and the Founder-Head of the Department. He is still a member of Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations of Necmettin Erbakan University in Konya/Turkey. He has many publications, articles, reviews, and translations works. On 15 May 2019, he was awarded the title of Associate Professor by the Interuniversity Board. For publications and a detailed CV: https://akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/view/viewAuthor.jsp (Search on Yusuf SAYIN)

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.

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).