Prof. Zuhal MERT UZUNER

Director

zmert@marmara.edu.tr 

Zuhal Mert Uzuner is a professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Marmara University. She teaches Introduction to International Relations and Seminar on Southeast Europe, International Organizations, EU-Turkey Relations, and Greek-Turkish Relations. Uzuner studies foreign policy analysis, Greek foreign policy, Turkish foreign policy, Balkan and Mediterranean politics, and Greek-Turkish relations. She has a B.A., M.A., and PhD degrees from Marmara University International Relations and an M.A. from Southeast European Studies at Democritus University of Thrace, Law School, Greece. She knows English and Greek and has written several articles, books, and papers in Turkish and English. She is the author of Anapofeuktoi Sintrofoi o Ellino Italikos Polemos ston Tourkiko Tipo Oktovrios Dekemvrios 1940 (published by Epikentro in 2016) and editor of Role of Image in Greek Turkish Relations (published in 2018 by Peter Lang). Zuhal Mert Uzuner, who has been the Director of MURCIR (Marmara University International Relations Research Center) since 2023, also participates in Track II diplomacy initiatives and has been a member of the Eastern Mediterranean Initiative since 2021 and the Turkish Greek Forum since 2022.

Dr. Zeynep BOSTAN

Deputy Director

zeynep.bostan@marmara.edu.tr 

Dr. Zeynep Bostan is a faculty member at Marmara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations. She completed her doctorate at Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences. She works on the history of Turkish diplomacy, foreign affairs organizations, and Balkan and African history. In 2022, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of London SOAS and the UK National Archives (TNA). Musavver Mısır Hatıratı, which she translated from Ottoman Turkish (with A. Yıldırım, Çamlıca Publishing), was published in 2017. Her book Modern Foundations of Ottoman Foreign Affairs: Diplomacy in the Era of Abdulhamid II (2021-Kitap Publishing House), was published in 2021.

Kardelen Özkartav

MURCIR Assistant

She is 4th grade student at the Marmara University, Faculty of Political Science, Department of Political Science and International Relations (English). 

Esad Ağpınar 

MURCIR Assistant

She is 3rd grade student at the Marmara University, Faculty of Political Science, Department of Political Science and International Relations (English).