Burhanettin Duran
| Burhanettin Duran | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 Sakarya, Turkey |
| Residence | Turkey |
| Citizenship | Turkish |
| Fields | Turkish Political Life and Turkish Foreign Policy |
| Institutions | Istanbul Sehir University, and Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research |
| Alma mater | Bogazici University, Bilkent University |
| Doctoral advisor | Umit Cizre |
| Doctoral students | Ali Balcı, Fikret Celik, and Nebi Mis |
| Known for | Political Islam in Turkey |
Burhanettin Duran (born 1971) is a Turkish political life scholar best known as author of academic studies on the transformation of political Islam under the rule of Justice and Development Party in Turkey. He is a former member of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul Sehir University. He is currently the general director of the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA), an Ankara-based think tank funded by Turkish government.
Burhanettin Duran was born in 1971 in Adapazari, Sakarya. Duran attended Adapazarı Imam Hatip school (now Adapazarı Anadolu Imam Hatip school), a lyce'e-level religious school, in Sakarya, graduated in 1989. In 1991, he established Sakarya İmam-Hatip Lisesi Mezunları ve Mensupları Derneği (SIMDER) (Association for Sakarya Imam Hatip High School Alumni) together with other alumni such as Atilla Arkan, and Kadir Ardic.
Duran received his BA from the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bogazici University in 1993. He completed his MA in Bilkent University in 1994 with a thesis titled "Kenan Evren's and Turgut Özal's Conceptualizations of Secularism: A Comparative Perspective". Duran received his Ph.D. from the same university upon completion of his doctoral thesis titled "Transformation of Islamist political Thought in Turkey from the Empire to the Early Republic (1908-1960): Necip Fazıl Kısakürek's Political Ideas" in 2000. During his graduate education, he worked for Bilkent as a research assistant.
Between 1993 and 2001, Duran served as a research assistant in the Department of Public Administration in Sakarya University. From 2001-2001, Duran was a member of the faculty of Department of International Relations, Sakarya University. He became an associate professor in 2006 in Sakarya University. From 2006–2009, he served as the head of the Department of International Relations.
In 2003, Duran, with his colleagues from Sakarya University and friends from Sakarya, established BilgiEvi (House of Knowledge), a civil society organization focusing on education and cultural activities. Its name was changed as Sakarya Bilgi Kültür Merkezi (A Center for Knowledge and Culture) in 2006.
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