Murat Cemrek, Associate Fellow
Murat ÇEMREK, Prof. Dr., Instructor and Chair in the Department of International Relations at Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey. He graduated from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Middle East Technical University (1996) and completed his MA (1997, Thesis; “Özal’s Politics with Special Reference to Religion”) and PhD (2003, Thesis; “Formation and Representation of Interests in Turkish Political Economy: The Case of MÜSİAD [Independent Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association]”) respectively. Çemrek had his post-doc research “Turkey-EU Relations: The Question of Human Rights at the Collegium Budapest: Institute for Advanced Studies, Hungary (2004). He taught in several universities: Necmettin Erbakan, Selcuk (Konya, Turkey), Police Academy (Ankara, Turkey), Atatürk Alatoo (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) Al Farabi (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and gave several seminars in numerous universities: Karamanoglu Mehmet Bey (Karaman, Turkey), International Hoca Ahmet Yesevi Turkish-Kazakh University (Turkistan, Kazakhstan), Oslo University (Norway), University of Szczecin (Poland); Central European University (Budapest, Hungary); and Oradea University (Romania). He is a member of various international academic organisations and journals as well as an organisation committee member and attendant to varied conferences, summer schools and workshops in thirty countries. Çemrek also worked at different administrative layers as Vice-Chair, Chair and Department Erasmus Coordinator in the Department of International Relations at Selcuk University from September 2004 to September 2012, as well as the Founding Director of the Eurasian Research Institute in Almaty (International Hoca Ahmet Yesevi Turkish-Kazakh University) from September 2012 to June 2014. He has also been the Erasmus+ Coordinator and the Director of Erol Güngör Turkic Diaspora Research Centre at Necmettin Erbakan University from July 2014 to November, respectively, till February 2018. He has also been the academic representative for Turkish Scholarship interviews in Iran, Georgia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Palestine and Mongolia during 2012-2019. His research interests include globalisation, Turkish Foreign Policy, the Middle East, and Central Asia, as well as Islam and politics.