Kadir Üstün

Dr. Kadir Ustun is Executive Director at the SETA Foundation at Washington DC. He is a columnist at the Turkish daily Yeni Safak, and his analyses have appeared in major publications such as Insight Turkey, Al Jazeera English, Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Al-Monitor, Politico, Daily Sabah, Mediterranean Quarterly, Middle East Eye, and Middle East Policy. He is co-editor of edited volumes History, Politics and Foreign Policy in Turkey (2011), Change and Adaptation in Turkish Foreign Policy (2014), Trump's Jerusalem Move: Making Sense of US Policy on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2020), Crimea from Regional and International Perspectives (2023). Dr. Ustun completed his BA at Istanbul University, MA at Bilkent University, and MBA at Georgetown University. He holds a PhD in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies from Columbia University.