İsmail Numan Telci Professor in the Department of International Relations and a lecturer at the Middle East Institute at Sakarya University.

Ismail Numan Telci is a professor in the Department of International Relations and a lecturer at the Middle East Institute (ORMER) at Sakarya University in Turkey. He has also taught in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul. During the 2024-2025 academic year, he was a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at Sultan Qaboos University. From 2016 to 2019, he worked as a researcher at the SETA Foundation, focusing on the Gulf region. Between 2019 and 2024, Professor Telci was the Vice President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (ORSAM), where he founded the Gulf Studies department. His research areas include international security, conflict resolution, the foreign policies of Gulf states, and security issues in Africa. His analyses and opinions have been featured in international media outlets such as TRT World, Al Jazeera, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Le Monde, and Middle East Eye.