İsmail Numan Telci

İsmail Numan Telci

Assoc. Prof. Dr. İsmail Numan Telci is the Deputy Director of the Sakarya University Middle East Institute and ORSAM. He completed his undergraduate studies at Istanbul University Faculty of Political Sciences and his master’s degree in European Studies at Hochschule Bremen. He began his doctoral studies in 2009 at the Department of International Relations, Sakarya University, and completed them in 2015 with a dissertation titled “The Role of Domestic and External Actors in the Revolution and Counter-Revolution Process in Egypt: 2011-2015.” This work was published by SETA under the title Egypt: Revolution and Counter-Revolution. Between 2014 and 2018, Telci served as the founding deputy director of the Middle East Institute established at Sakarya University. From 2016 to 2019, he worked as a researcher on the foreign policy desk at SETA. He currently teaches Modern Middle Eastern History and Understanding the Arab Revolutions at Sakarya University and has served as Deputy Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (ORSAM) since July 2019. His research areas include Gulf politics, the foreign policies of Gulf countries, Egyptian politics, social movements in Egypt, and the Arab revolutions.