Res. Asst. PhD SÜLEYMAN BUĞRAHAN BAYRAM

I completed my BA in International Relations (IR) at Bilkent University in 2014. In 2018, I earned an MA degree in IR from Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University (AYBU). My MA thesis examined Turkish foreign policy toward Ukraine between 2002-2016. I completed my PhD in the same institution in 2024 with a dissertation examining Russian military interventions in Georgia, Ukraine and Syria as part of a status-seeking strategy. I am currently a research assistant at AYBU and my research interests mainly include Russian foreign policy, the environment-security nexus, and existentialism in IR. I am fluent in English and have an upper-intermediate reading proficiency in Russian.