Rıfat Öncel
Research Assistant, Security, Ankara
Rıfat Öncel graduated from Dokuz Eylul University Department of International Relations in 2014. He is currently studying on his master thesis at Middle East Technical University Department of International Relations. His areas of research include Iraqi politics, violent non-state actors, radicalism, and religion and nationalism in the Middle East. He is working as a research assistant in SETA Ankara Security Studies Department.
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Policy ReportSETA Security Radar | Turkey’s Security Landscape in 2020
SETA Security Radar attempts to anticipate the course of major security issues Turkey faces and how to develop and enhance sound and relevant responses within this increasingly challenging regional security environment.
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Policy ReportSETA Security Radar | Turkey’s Security Landscape in 2019
This work aims to provide a timely and accessible assessment of the challenges awaiting Turkey in 2019. Hence, SETA Security Radar: Turkey’s Security Landscape in 2019 pertains to the following topics: Turkey’s role in Syria, Turkey’s counterterrorism strategy, Turkey’s military activism, the Turkish defense agenda, Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean, and Turkey’s bilateral relations with the United States and Russia.
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OpinionWhy Western media is wrong about Turkey’s fight against...
After U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. soldiers from Syria and his ensuing statements where he attributes the strong positive role that Turkey would play in the fight with remnants of Daesh, many analysts in Western media have expressed their doubts.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Turkey’s counterterrorism strategy an assesment of the fight...
The study argues that specific developments such as the territorial decline of DAESH, and counterterrorism experience ensured the prevention of more terrorist attacks by DAESH terrorists.
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AnalysisOne Year after July 15 Turkey’s Fight against Terrorism
Turkish security institutions faced a series of security challenges following the July 15 coup...