Ferhat Durmaz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Ankara University’s Faculty of Political Sciences, Türkiye. He teaches courses such as Regional Politics: Asia-Pacific, Contemporary Global Issues, and Asia-Pacific in Global Politics, and leads seminars on Asia-Pacific Studies.
Between December 2022 and September 2023, Dr. Durmaz was a visiting researcher at KUASIA – the Center for Asian Studies at Koç University. He has also taken part in Erasmus Teaching Mobility programs at Babeș-Bolyai University in Romania (2023), Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary (2024), and Georgian American University in Georgia (2024).
He received the Ministry of National Education Scholarship of the Republic of Türkiye, which enabled him to pursue academic work abroad. As part of this scholarship, he studied at the University of Delaware in 2016 before completing his Ph.D. in Political Science at the International Islamic University Malaysia in 2021. His doctoral dissertation examined ASEAN regionalism.
Dr. Durmaz’s research interests include Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, Southeast Asian studies, and Turkish foreign policy, with a particular focus on Türkiye’s relations with Asia.