Kemal Inat
| Kemal Inat | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 Sakarya, Turkey |
| Residence | Turkey |
| Citizenship | Turkish |
| Alma mater | Ankara University, University of Siegen |
| Known for | Turkey-Middle East Relations |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | International Relations and Middle East |
| Institutions | Sakarya University, |
| Doctoral students | Filiz Cicioglu, Yildirim Turan and Ismail Numan Telci |
Kemal Inat is a professor of Turkish Foreign Policy and Middle East Politics in the Department of International Relations at Sakarya University. Inat is founding director of Sakarya University Middle East Institute and head of Department of International Relations, Sakarya University. He also serves in Sakarya Bilgi Kültür Merkezi as member of the board.
Kemal Inat received his BA in International Relations from Ankara University in 1992 and his MA from University of Siegen in Germany in 1997. He received his Ph.D. from the same university upon completion of his doctoral thesis titled "Türkische Nahostpolitik am Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts" (Turkey's Middle East Policy at the Dawn of 21st Century) in 2000.
Since 1997, Inat has been a member of the faculty of Department of International Relations, Sakarya University. He became an associate professor in 2006, a full professor in 2011. From 2010–2013, he served as chairman of the Institute of Social Science at Sakarya University. In 2014, he served as the dean of Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences for a short period. Since 2015, he serves as the head of the Department of International Relations and chairman of Middle East Institute.
Inat has published numerous articles on Middle East politics and Turkish foreign policy in Turkish. Inat is the editor and the main contributor of "Ortadoğu Yıllığı" (The Middle East Yearbook) published since 2005. He is also the editor of Türk Dış Politikası Yıllığı (Turkish Foreign Policy Annual) published since 2009 by SETA Publication. Added to these two annual, Inat's academic articles have been published in national and international peer-reviewed journals. These journals include Finanspolitik & Ekonomik Yorumlar, Bilgi and Demokrasi Platformu. He currently teaches as a professor on Middle East politics, Turkish foreign policy and international conflicts.
His political commentaries appeared in Turkish dailies such as Star, and Sabah.
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