Assoc. Prof. SEYİT ALİ AVCU

Seyit Ali Avcu is a political scientist and a faculty member at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations and Comparative Politics from the University of Virginia and he thought in several universities in the USA, Turkey, and Kyrgyzstan. He served as a director of Central Asian Research Center (ORASAM) at Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Manas University where he directed several research projects on Central Asia. He is also a former Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) Kyrgyzstan country director. His research focuses on Central Asia, integration, Eurasian Economic Union, Belt and Road Initiative, political parties, ethnic conflict, nationalism, politics and religion, politics of economic reform, globalization, and energy politics. He published the following books: Economic Reforms and Party System Fragmentation in Turkey (Germany:Lambert Publishing, 2015), Osmanlı’dan Günümüze Türkiye’nin Siyasal Hayatı (Ankara: Savaş, 2017), Osmanlı’dan Günümüze Türkiye’nin Dış Politikası (Ankara: Savaş, 2018)  ve Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasia(Eskişehir: Anadolu Üniversitesi, 2020) Dr. Avcu speaks Turkish (native) English, Russian, Arabic, Kyrgyz, and Kazakh.