Huseyin Isiksal

Biography

Professor Dr. Hüseyin Işıksal is graduated from Türk Maarif College in Nicosia. He achieved a B.A. degree as a high-honour student from the Department of International Relations at Eastern Mediterranean University in 1998. He completed his M.A. at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom where he studied as the “Chevening Scholar of Cyprus”, awarded by the British Council Foreign Ministry & Commonwealth Office to the most successful graduate of the year. He received his first Ph.D. from the Keele University-United Kingdom, Department of Politics and International Relations, and achieved his second Ph.D. from the Middle East Technical University-Turkey, Department of International Relations.

Since 2002, he has been full-time lecturer in various universities in Turkey, England, and the TRNC. He has two different Associate Professorship titles obtained from the TRNC and the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) in Turkey. In 2019, he became a full Professor in the field of International Relations. He has over fifty publications written in English and Turkish in various peer-reviewed academic journals and as book chapters. He is the editor of six books including Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Millennium, Blue Apple: Turkey-European Union Relations, Turkey’s Relations with the Middle East: Political Encounters after the Arab Spring, Historical Examinations and Current Issues in Turkish-American Relations, and Cyprus: Alternative Solution Models.