Dr Zenonas Tziarras is a Lecturer in the Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cyprus. He holds a PhD in Politics and international Studies from the University of Warwick, UK, with a focus on Turkish Foreign Policy under the Justice and Development Party (AKP). Zenonas attained a BA in Mediterranean Studies from the University of the Aegean, Greece, and an MA in International Relations and Strategic Studies from the University of Birmingham, UK.
Dr Oguzhan Göksel is Associate Professor of Political Economy at Marmara University, Turkey. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of New Middle Eastern Studies journal based in the UK. He completed his multi-disciplinary Ph.D. degree in Political Science and Political Economy at Durham University, UK in 2015.