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Burhanettin Duran
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Burhanettin Duran

General Coordinator
Burhanettin Duran received his BA in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Bilkent University in 2001. He was a visiting scholar at George Mason University in 2010-2011. Prof. Duran has been focusing on the transformation of Islamism, Turkish Political Thought, Turkish Domestic Politics, Turkish Foreign Policy and Middle Eastern Politics. Currently Prof. Duran is a professor at Ibn Haldun University and General Coordinator of SETA Foundation. On 09th October 2018, Prof. Duran was appointed as member of Turkish Presidency Security and Foreign Policies Council.

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  • A U.S. State Department staffer adjusts a Turkish flag before a meeting between Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., April 3, 2019. (AFP Photo)
    Opinion
    Turkey called back its research vessel Oruç Reis to port in order to support efforts by Germany and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to facilitate dialogue with Greece. As Ankara and Athens continue to exchange statements, tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean will be discussed at the Special European Council on Sept. 24-25.
  • Soldiers stand guard at the mausoleum of the Turkish republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, capital Ankara, Aug. 1, 2019. (AFP Photo)
    Opinion
    Turkey’s main opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), has become embroiled in internal strife over the distinction between 'Mustafa Kemal' and 'Atatürk', in reference to the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
  • Heads of government watch a marching band perform as they pose for a family photo at the NATO summit at the Grove hotel in Watford, northeast of London, Dec. 4, 2019. (AFP Photo)
    Opinion
    The squabble between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and French President Emmanuel Macron continues.
  • President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, members of the government, opposition leaders and other officials attend a ceremony commemorating the 81st anniversary of the death of Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, at his mausoleum in capital Ankara, Nov. 10, 2019. (AFP Photo)
    Opinion
    Western media’s opposition to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is possibly the world’s worst kept secret. Western commentators immediately jump to conclusions about the supposedly expansionist goals of Erdoğan’s Turkey whenever Ankara launches a fresh foreign policy initiative. Experts in Washington, Paris, Athens, Abu Dhabi and elsewhere make the same arguments in an attempt to contain Turkey’s influence to an unbearable extent. At the heart of those comments lies the claim that the Turkish president has isolated his country in the international arena, which will lead the nation to a disaster and that the Turkish people deserve better.
  • French President Emmanuel Macron (R) welcomes Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for the plenary session of the seventh MED7 Mediterranean countries summit, in Porticcio, Corsica. (AFP Photo)
    Opinion
    French President Emmanuel Macron has openly had Turkey in his crosshairs for quite some time.