Meliha Benli Altunisik

Meliha Benli Altunışık, professor of international relations
Professor Meliha Altunışık is director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences at Middle East Technical University based in Ankara. Some of her publications include “Turkey: Challenges of Continuity and Change” (with Özlem Tür, 2005), “Worldviews and Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East,” Special Issue on Turkish Foreign Policy, New Perspectives on Turkey (Vol. 40, pp. 169-192. 2009); “The Role of Turkey in the Middle East, Med.2009,” Mediterranean Yearbook; Arab Perspectives on Turkey” (Istanbul: TESEV Publications, 2010); and “Turkeys Search for a Third Party Role in Arab-Israeli Conflicts: A Neutral Facilitator or a Principal Power Mediator?” (with Esra Çuhadar, Mediterranean Politics, 2010).
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