Mehmet Akif Kireçci is the dean of the School of Political Science at the Social Sciences University of Ankara. Concurrently, he is a board member of the Fulbright Commission in Turkey, and the Deputy Chairperson of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO. Prof. Kireçci was also a Marie Curie fellow. He has taught, researched and published on geopolitics, modernisation and cultural transformations in the Middle East, Turkish foreign policy, Ottoman diplomacy, 19th century history, orientalism, intellectual movements, Islam, history of science and technology, and the internationalisation of education.
Selected Publications:
“Turkey’s Leadership in the Jerusalem Crisis”, Insight Turkey, vol. 20, no. 2, 2018, pp.
67-79.
(with M. Akif Kireçci Hasan Bacanlı, Yavuz Erişen, Nadir Çeliköz, Mehmet Ali Dombaycı,
Engin Karadağ, Metin Toprak, Mehmet Şahin). “Türkiye'de Üniversite Öğrencisi Olmak:
Şehir Halkı, Türk ve Uluslararası Öğrenciler Bağlamında Karşılaştırmalı Bir Alan
Araştırması” [Being An International University Student in Turkey: Comparative Field
Study on City Population and Turkish and International Students], Yükseköğretim Dergisi,
vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 49-61.
(with Hasan Bacanlı, Yavuz Erişen, Engin Karadağ, Nadir Çeliköz, M Dombaycı, Metin
Toprak, Mehmet Şahin). “Türkiye’de Yükseköğretimin Uluslararasılaşması: Bir Endeks
Oluşturma Çalışması” [The Internationalization of Higher Education in Turkey: Creating
an Index], Eğitim ve Bilim, vol. 41, no. 187, 2016, pp. 1-28.
(with Selim Tezcan). “The Predicament of the Crimean Tatars, Past and Present”, Bilig,
vol. 77, 2016, pp. 1 – 26.
(with Selim Tezcan). Kırım’ın Kısa Tarihi [A Short History of Crimea], Ahmet Yesevi
Üniversitesi Mütevelli Heyet Başkanlığı, Ankara, 2015.
“Humanitarian Diplomacy in Theory and Practice”, Perceptions, vol. 21, no. 1, 2015, pp.
1-6.
“Relating Turkey to the Middle East and North Africa: Arab Spring and the Turkish
Experience”, Bilig, vol. 63, 2012, pp. 111-134.
“Turkey in the United Nations Security Council”, SETA Policy Briefs, no. 28, 2009.
“Political Criticism in the Short Stories of Yusuf Idris: ‘Innocence’ and ‘19502’”,
Massachusetts Review, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 672 – 688.
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