Assoc. Prof. Fatma Sarıaslan is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Istanbul Medeniyet University. She earned her BA (2003) and MA (2006) at Istanbul University and her PhD at Bursa Uludağ University (2016). Before entering academia, she spent thirteen years as a foreign trade expert at the Turkish Ministry of Trade, where she coordinated national and EU-funded projects. She joined academia full-time in 2018 as an Assistant Professor at Bursa Technical University and moved to Istanbul Medeniyet University in 2022. Her research focuses on Middle Eastern studies, Turkish foreign policy, Turkey-Middle East relations, political economy, and Islamophobia.
Fatma Sarıaslan
Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Medeniyet University