Doç. Dr. Mitat ÇELİKPALA

Dr. Mitat Çelikpala is Associate Professor of International Relations at TOBB Economy and Technology University, Ankara/Turkey. Dr. Çelikpala has been working on the Caucasus, Caucasian Diaspora, people and security in the Caucasus and the Black Sea regions and Turkish-Russian relations. Before joining the academia, he served for Turkish National Security Council. Currently he is lecturing in TOBB ETU, War College and Turkish National Security Academy on Turkish foreign policy, politics and history of the Caucasus and Central Asia, and Turkish political structure and political life. He is academic adviser to National Security Academy, Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Strategic Research Center and Turkish Armed Forces’ Strategic Research Center (SAREM), Ankara. He is the author of many publications dealing with above mentioned topics published in academic journals as well as newspapers.