Turkey's Relations with the Middle East

Dr. Hüseyin Isıksal is Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Near East University, North Cyprus. He completed his M.A. at the University of Warwick-UK and has two Ph.D. degrees in Politics and International Relations from the Keele University-UK and Middle East Technical University-Turkey. Since 2002 he is full time lecturer in various universities in Turkey, England and Cyprus. Dr. Isıksal is the editor of the books Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Millenium, and Blue Apple: Turkey-European Union Relations. He widely published in various peer reviewed academic journals including Alternatives and Electoral Studies. Dr. Isıksal frequently provided opinion on national TV channels and newspapers in Turkey and North Cyprus. His main research areas are Turkish Foreign Policy, Middle East, Cyprus, and IR Theory. Dr. Oguzhan Göksel is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations,Istanbul 29 Mayis University, Turkey. He also works as book reviews editor for New Middle Eastern Studies. He completed his Ph.D. degree in the School of Government and International Affairs & Ustinov College at Durham University, UK in 2015. Dr. Göksel's works have been published in various edited books and international peer-reviewed journals such as Mediterranean Politics, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and Turkish Studies<. His main areas of research are modernization and theories of modernity; comparative politics; historical sociology; and political economy of development.