Dr. Melek Mutioğlu Özkesen graduated from Middle East Technical University (Department of International Relations) in 2011 and completed her Master’s degree in Political Science and Public Administration at the same university in 2014. She earned her PhD in International Relations from Ankara University in 2020.

Since 2011, she has been working at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Business School. Her research focuses on the political economy of trade, land politics, state transformation, agrifood industry and currently sustainability. She has carried out research visits and collaborations in the several European countries, contributing to international projects on sustainable land management and public asset governance. She is the author of a book on land politics in Turkey called "Toprakları Kapatmak" and the scriptwriter of the documentary “Fındıktan Sonra." 

She is fluent in Turkish and English, and intermediate proficiency in German.

In addition to her academic work, she values spending time in nature, creative writing, and collective learning environments.

2014 - 2020

Doctorate

Ankara University, Faculty Of Polıtıcal Scıences, Department Of Internatıonal Relatıons, Turkey

2011 - 2014

Postgraduate

Middle East Technical University, Faculty Of Economic And Administrative Sciences, Department Of Political Science And Public Administration, Turkey

2006 - 2011

Undergraduate

Middle East Technical University, Faculty Of Economic And Administrative Sciences, Department Of International Relations, Turkey

B1 Intermediate

German

C2 Mastery

English

2022 - Continues

Assistant Professor

Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, İşletme Fakültesi, Uluslararası Ticaret ve işletmecilik

2011 - 2022

Research Assistant

Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, İşletme Fakültesi, Uluslararası Ticaret ve işletmecilik

2024 - 2026

Head of Department

Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, İşletme Fakültesi, Uluslararası Ticaret Ve İşletmecilik

Undergraduate

ULUSLARARASI EKONOMİDE GÜNCEL AKTÖRLER

NATIONS, POLITICS AND MARKETS

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS IN EMERGING COUNTRIES

2025

MUTİOĞLU ÖZKESEN M.

TraCE 2025, Germany, 19 - 21 November 2025, (Summary Text)

2025

MUTİOĞLU ÖZKESEN M.

IIPPE 2025, Turkey, 18 - 20 September 2025, (Summary Text)

2025

MUTİOĞLU ÖZKESEN M.

II.International Filyos Sustainable Development and Logistics Congress, Turkey, 17 - 19 April 2025, (Summary Text)

2023

MUTİOĞLU ÖZKESEN M.

17. Ulusal Sosyal Bilimler Kongresi, 03 February 2023, (Summary Text)

2018

MUTİOĞLU ÖZKESEN M.

Mülkiye Uluslararası İlişkiler Kongresi, Ankara, Turkey, 16 October 2018, (Summary Text)

2017

MUTİOĞLU ÖZKESEN M.

International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy, Berlin, Germany, 30 September 2017, (Summary Text)

2016

MUTİOĞLU ÖZKESEN M.

International Initiative for Promotion of Political Economy, Lizbon, Portugal, 08 September 2016, (Summary Text)

2015

MUTİOĞLU ÖZKESEN M.

WORK2015, Turku, Finland, 21 August 2015, (Summary Text)

2022

MUTİOĞLU ÖZKESEN M.

İletişim Yayınları, 2022

2017

MUTİOĞLU ÖZKESEN M.

in: Tarihsel Materyalizm ve Uluslararası İlişkiler, Faruk Yalvaç, Editor, İmge Kitabevi, pp.249-275, 2017

2022 - 2024

MOTHERCARE- Psychological and Pedagogical Support to the mothers in postpartum period

Erasmus Project , Erasmus+ KA2 Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices, National Level

Mutioğlu Özkesen M.

2021 - 2024

MotherCare - Psychological and Pedagogic Support to The Mothers in Post-Partum Period

Erasmus Project , Erasmus+ KA2 Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices, National Level

Mutioğlu Özkesen M., Kılıç Ceyhan E., KOLAY ÇEPNİ Ş., VARLIKLAR DEMİRKAZIK Ç. N., BAŞ B.

2017 - 2017

SPARK

Erasmus Project , Erasmus+ KA2 Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices, National Level

Mutioğlu Özkesen M.

October 2023

Kamu Yönetimi Kongresi, 2023

Conference Paper (Abstract)

January 2021

JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Other journals

April 2020

JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES

Journal Indexed in SSCI