Mustafa Aydin
 Mustafa Aydin    (academic) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 15 September 1967 Trabzon, Turkey | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | Turkish | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Ankara University, Lancaster University | |||||||||||||
| Member of | European Leadership Network, German Marshall Fund | |||||||||||||
Turkish "security" academic. German Marshall Fund. Bilderberg/2024
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Mustafa Aydin is a Turkish "security" academic who was a Fulbright Scholar at the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government[1]
He attended the 2024 Bilderberg meeting.
Education
He was born in Trabzon on the Black Sea coast of Turkey on 15 September 1967, but grew up in Ankara. He graduated from the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science of Ankara University in 1988. He did a master's degree in the field of International Relations and Strategic Studies in 1991 at Lancaster University, UK, and obtained his PhD "Political Sciences and International Relations" in 1994 from the same university.
Career
Working as an academic member at the Faculty of Political Science of Ankara University between 1995 and 2005, Aydın assumed the title of Associate Professor in 1999 and the Full Professor in 2005, and served as the founding-chair of the Program on "Global and Regional Studies".
He later held positions as the Head of the Department of International Relations at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology between 2005 and 2010; Director of International Policy Research Institute (TEPAV-IPRI, Ankara) between 2005 and 2011; Co-Coordinator of the International Commission on the Black Sea; member of the Economy and Foreign Policy Study Group of the President's Office; Board Member of the strategic research centers of both the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Turkish Armed Forces; Deputy Chairperson of the International Commission of Eminent Persons on the Caucasus and Caspian (2007-2008); Alexander S. Onassis Fellow at the University of Athens (2003); Research Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris (2003); Fulbright Scholar at the JFK School of Government, Harvard University (2002); and UNESCO Fellow at the Richardson Institute for Peace Studies, UK (1999).
Until 2018 he wrote weekly columns for the Hürriyet Daily News.[2]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2024 | 30 May 2024 | 2 June 2024 | Madrid Spain | The 70th Bilderberg Meeting |
