Rahman Dag is currently a Professor at Marmara University in Turkey.
He obtained his BA from Yeditepe University in Istanbul. He then earned a master’s degree from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) in London.
He earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Exeter University’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in Middle East Politics.
He also serves as Deputy Director of Cesran International.
His affiliation with Cesran continues as editor of the Rest: Journal of Politics and Development (The Rest Journal).
Right after finishing his higher education, He was appointed as a research assistant in 2014 and, within a month, promoted to assistant professor at Adıyaman University. He worked for the University for more than six years. After the Higher Education Council in Turkey awarded him an associate professorship, he was promoted to Associate Professor at Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University. His expertise centres on Middle East politics, with a focus on the Kurdish question in the region and Turkish foreign policy. His latest interest is great power politics and how rising regional powers are accommodated in world politics and the international system.
He can be reached at [email protected].