Kadir Ustun is the Research Director at the SETA Foundation at Washington, D.C. He also serves as an Assistant Editor of Insight Turkey, an academic journal published by the SETA Foundation. Mr. Ustun holds a master’s degree in History from Bilkent University and an M.Phil from Columbia University. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Middle East Studies at Columbia University. Mr. Ustun has taught courses on history, politics, culture, and art in the Islamic World as well as Western political thought at Columbia University and George Mason University. His research interests include civil-military relations, social and military modernization in the Middle East, US-Turkey relations, and Turkish foreign policy. Mr. Ustun has contributed to various SETA reports and his writings have appeared in Sabah Daily, insideIRAN.org, Al-Monitor.com, Al Jazeera English, Insight Turkey, and Cairo Review of Global Affairs. He is also co-editor of an edited volume – History, Politics and Foreign Policy in Turkey – published by the SETA Foundation.
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Omer Ozbek is continuing his doctoral studies in Management at University of Maryland with a focus on international policy making. He holds a Master's degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Auburn University, Alabama and a Bachelor's degree in the same field from Sabanci University in Istanbul. Before moving to Washington DC area, he worked at grassroots organizations in the Southeastern US and coordinated many projects with local universities and institutions. He also served on the community engagement councils of several federal and state agencies in Georgia and Florida.
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Kilic Bugra Kanat is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Penn State University, Erie and a research scholar at the SETA Foundation at Washington, D.C. He received his doctoral degree in Political Science from Syracuse University. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science from Syracuse University and a master’s in International Affairs from Marquette University. He completed his undergraduate education in the International Relations Department of the Middle East Technical University. Dr. Kanat also holds a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Middle Eastern Affairs and Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Conflict Resolution. His research interests include foreign policy decision-making, foreign policy change, and domestic politics and foreign policy interaction. Dr. Kanat’s writings have appeared in Foreign Policy, Insight Turkey, Middle East Policy, Arab Studies Quarterly, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. He also regularly contributes op-eds to Star, Sabah, Today's Zaman, Zaman Daily, Radikal Daily, and Hurriyet Daily News. He is also co-editor of an edited volume – History, Politics and Foreign Policy in Turkey – published by the SETA Foundation
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  Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu received his B.S and M.S degrees in international relations from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Concurrently he is a doctoral student in political science at Boston University and his research interests include politics of multiculturalism in United States and Europe with a focus on Muslim communities, international relations theories and politics of religion in Muslim majority societies. Tekelioglu previously held research positions with Frederick S Pardee Center for the Study of Longer-Range Future at Boston University, Boston University Department of Political Science, Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria, Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and SETA Foundation in Ankara.
 Feriha Perekli is a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the SETA Foundation at Washington DC. She holds a Ph.D. degree from the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures program at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana. Dr. Perekli received her B.S. degree in International Relations from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Galatasaray University in Istanbul, Turkey. Her research interests include modern politics of the Middle East, the democratization process in the MENA region, and political Islam in North Africa and Turkey. She has taught classes covering democratization in the Middle East and political Islam, and has published articles in such journals as Insight Turkey and New Middle Eastern Studies.
 Ms. Simon received her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. She was a 2009 recipient of the U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarship for Turkish language study. Her research interests include U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish civil-military issues, and the role of minorities in Turkish society. She plans to pursue graduate studies in political science and international affairs.
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Nuh Yılmaz was the founding director of the SETA Foundation at Washington DC between 2008 and 2011. He is an academic, foreign policy analyst and journalist with broad work experience as executive director, bureau chief, columnist, and editor. Before SETA-DC he served as the Washington bureau chief of Turkish media outlets such as STAR, CNN Türk, Haber24. He has numerous publications and appearances in major media outlets including BBC, Washington Times, Al-Jazeera English, Al-Jazeera Arabic, Open Democracy, The National and Foreign Policy. Mr. Yilmaz also worked for Al Jazeera Türk as Head of Quality Assurance. He is currently Foreign News Coordinator at Star Newspaper, teaching at Marmara University and Visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). He is a member of the IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies).
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Mr. Cebeci has completed his undergraduate studies at Istanbul University and received an M.S. degree from Penn State University, both in Business Administration. He attended a Ph.D. program first in Managerial Economics then in Ecological Economics at Rensselaer Institute of Technology (RPI). He taught several undergraduate courses on Economics and Public Finance as an Adjunct Professor at RPI. He established and run private companies in business consulting and international trade. He has served two terms as a member of Turkish Parliament. He also served as a member of NATO Parliamentary Assembly, first member and then as the Chairman of the Turkish Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. While in politics, he has mainly worked on human rights issues, security and defense issues, foreign policy, and European politics.