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Sylvia Tiryaki is a scholar, political analyst and civil society activist, who founded the Global Political Trends Center (GPoT), a policy oriented research institution under the auspices of Istanbul Kültür University with her colleague Mensur Akgün in 2008.[1] Tiryaki is the former Vice-Chair of the International Relations Department of Istanbul Kültür University where she currently lectures on international law, introduction to law, human rights and history of political thought.

Tiryaki completed her Master's and doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. She has co-authored number of books, wrote analytical reports and articles. Additionally, she travels extensively and participates in various workshops and international conferences as a representative of both the civil society and academia.

From 1996 until 2002, Tiryaki worked as a lawyer. Between 2003 and 2008, she was a senior research fellow and coordinated a series of Cyprus projects at the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), Foreign Policy Program.[2][3]

Previously a regular columnist at the Turkish Daily News, Tiryaki writes for various national and international academic journals and newspapers. She is an expert in the fields of Turkish foreign policy, human security, Cyprus, the Middle East and North Africa, Armenia, and the European Union. She has been serving as an adviser to the World Handicapped Foundation since 2011 and an honorary board member of the Human Security Collective.

Publications

  • Finding Common Grounds - Rediscovering the Common Narrative of Turkey and Europe. Bratislava: RC SFPA, 2009. (Edited book)
  • A Promise to Keep: Time to end the international isolation of the Turkish Cypriots. Istanbul: TESEV Publications, June 2008. (Edited book)
  • EU Accession Prospects for Turkey and Ukraine: Debates in New Member States. Warsaw: Institute of Public Affairs, 2006. (Edited book)
  • Quo Vadis Cyprus?. Istanbul: TESEV Publications, April 2005. (Edited book)
  • Freedom Flotila: Before and Aftermath in Middle East Observer. Anhens: Security and Defence Analysis Institute, Vol. 1, issue 3, August 2010.
  • Ending the Isolation of Turkish Cypriots in Insight Turkey. Istanbul: SETA Foundation, Vol. 12, No. 1/2010, February 2010.
  • European Identity 2006 in International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs. Bratislava: RC SFPA, Vol. 1, 2006.
  • The Annan Plan: A Missed Opportunity. World Security Network, 14 May 2004.

References

  1. ^ (26 April 2010). Tiryaki: Direct trade regulation key to move forward in Cyprus, Today's Zaman
  2. ^ (21 July 2007). Turci teď o EU nechtějí ani slyšet, říká analytička, Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech)
  3. ^ (4 November 2008). Slovenka, ktorá dáva Cypru mier, hnonline.sk (in Slovak)
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