Dr. Ali Bakir is a Research Assistant Professor at Ibn Khaldon Center. He is also a senior consultant who focuses on MENA geopolitics and security, foreign and defense policies of Turkey and the Gulf States, great power politics in the ME, and small states’ behavior. Dr. Eyüp Ersoy is a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Ahi Evran University in Turkey. Dr. Ersoy specializes on Turkey-Middle East relations.
