The Expert is an analyst and researcher based in Istanbul since 1989. His special areas of interest are leftist, Kurdish and Islamist movements and organizations, religious and ethnic minorities, rightist organizations, political Islam, human rights, security issues and civil-military relations.
The Expert is a political analyst/researcher who has been living and working in Turkey since 1989. He covers a broad range broad range of political, economic and social topics related to Turkey. His special areas of interest are leftist, Kurdish and Islamist movements and organizations, religious and ethnic minorities, rightist organizations, political Islam, human rights, security issues and civil-military relations.
The Expert has written more than 70 expert reports about Turkey, including on leftist, Kurdish nationalist and Islamist activists and sympathizers, Alevis, Turkey-based Uyghurs and conscientious objectors.
Between Fact and Fantasy: Turkey’s Ergenekon Investigation (Stockholm: ISDP, August 2009)
Political Islam in Turkey: Running West, Heading East? (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Context and Circumstance: The Turkish Military and Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
The PKK (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023)