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Kadir Üstün
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Kadir Üstün

Coordinator, Washington DC
Kadir Ustun is the Executive Director at the SETA Foundation at Washington, D.C. He also serves as an Assistant Editor of Insight Turkey, an academic journal published by the SETA Foundation. Dr. Ustun holds a PhD in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies from Columbia University and a Master’s degree in History from Bilkent University. He has contributed to various SETA reports and his writings have appeared in various publications such as Insight Turkey, Al Jazeera English, Daily Sabah, Hurriyet Daily News, Mediterranean Quarterly, and Cairo Review of Global Affairs among others. He is also co-editor of edited volumes History, Politics and Foreign Policy in Turkey, Change and Adaptation in Turkish Foreign Policy, and Politics and Foreign Policy in Turkey: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
  • Turkey's drilling ships continue their Operations in Mediterranean Sea
    Opinion
    Recent tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean have multiple drivers including the race for exploitation of energy resources, long-standing maritime disputes, and the broader geopolitical competition between regional powers. While Turkey’s recent assertiveness of her rights in the Eastern Mediterranean drew renewed attention to the region, this round of confrontation has been long in the making.
  • Trump’s Jerusalem Move
    Book
    This critically important book includes chapters both contextualizing and discussing the U.S. administration’s Jerusalem declaration in great detail. Various sections authored by American, Latin American, European, and Turkish authors examine the international responses to the U.S. President Trump’s declaration.
  • Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, November 13.
    Opinion
    Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, November 13. Kadir Ustun, Executive Director at SETA Foundation DC, discusses Erdogan-Trump summit, what President Erdogan has achieved in this visit.
  • SANLIURFA, TURKEY - SEPTEMBER 08 : A photo taken from Turkey's Sanliurfa province shows the armoured vehicles as Turkey, US start first joint ground patrols as part of efforts to establish safe zone east of Euphrates in Syria on September 08, 2019. First joint Turkish-U.S. ground patrols begin Sunday for a planned safe zone east of Euphrates in Syria. The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) and U.S. Armed Forces initiated the patrols as part of first phase of safe zone plan. Turkish-flagged six armored vehicles joined the U.S. military convoy 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) away from Akcakale district of southeastern Sanliurfa province.
    Opinion
    Experts stress probability of Turkish military intervention in east of Euphrates as expectations from US not fulfilled yet
  • ANKARA, TURKEY - SEPTEMBER 09 : Nursin Atesoglu Guney (2nd L), a member of Turkey's Presidential Security and Foreign Policy Council, Kadir Ustun (2nd R), executive director of the Washington-based think-tank SETA Foundation, Murat Aslan (R), Faculty Member of Hasan Kalyoncu University and Researcher in Security Studies Directorate of SETA attend a panel regarding Turkish-American relations in the context of a safe zone hosted by SETA, the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research, in Ankara, Turkey on September 09, 2019.
    Opinion
    Experts discuss consequences of possible unilateral intervention by Turkey east of Euphrates River