Ozgur Unluhisarcikli
Director, Ankara OfficeÖzgür Ünlühisarcıklı is the director of GMF's office in Ankara, Turkey. Prior to joining GMF, he was the manager of the Resource Development Department of the Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey. Previously, Ünlühisarcıklı worked as the director of the ARI Movement, a Turkish NGO promoting participatory democracy, and as a consultant at AB Consulting and Investment Services.
After graduating from the Robert College (Istanbul), Ünlühisarcıklı received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Marmara University and his master's degree from Koç University. He speaks fluent English in addition to his native Turkish.
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September 7, 2021
Despite the hyperbole and verbal daggers of some in the European and American foreign policy communities over President Biden's...
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April 16, 2020
The refugee crisis on Turkey's borders can only be resolved with a new EU deal. It should build on the current plan but avoid its...
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October 15, 2019
As Turkey steps up air strikes and a ground offensive launched this week against Kurdish-held areas of northern Syria, we take a look at...
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June 24, 2019
Requesting a rerun of the mayoral election in İstanbul was a gambit for President Erdoğan and the odds do not look favorable.
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April 2, 2019
The municipal elections that took place on Sunday in Turkey were a clear win for the opposition.
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April 1, 2019
"Thanks to years of complacency in Washington and Ankara, Turkey’s commitment to NATO has become questionable and it will take very...
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April 15, 2017
Özgür Ünlühisarcıklı, director of the GMF Ankara office, joins CNN's Becky Anderson to discuss the outcome of the constitutional...
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March 2, 2016
The terrorist attack against military service buses carrying ranked and civilian staff on February 17 in Ankara — the fourth major attack...
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The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) turns 50 on March 5. This year likewise marks the 75th anniversary of the...
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We on the GMF team come to our work from a variety of faith and value traditions, and in the midst of such distinctions, focus well...
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ANKARA — Polarization in Turkey is eroding the platform for a pluralistic democracy and paving the way for populist and majoritarian...
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Turkey has experienced numerous terror attacks in 2016.
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The international community has failed to fully grasp the sense of unity and solidarity the recent coup attempt has created among the...
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Polarization is unique neither to Turkey nor to the current period.
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The United States and Europe cannot be complacent about the risk of conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Turkey has woken up to a traumatic day with 33 Turkish soldiers killed in Idlib overnight by an airstrike reportedly conducted by Syrian...
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Could Turkey’s Elections Reset Relations with the West?
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ANKARA — The U.S.–Turkey relationship has always been difficult, but never so vulnerable. Diverging priorities and, it is time to say,...
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The situation in Turkey is becoming unacceptable from a Western liberal perspective.
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The attempted coup d'état in Turkey came at a time when no one expected it, and ended very quickly thanks to the determination of...
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Photo by Mstyslav Chernov - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, h
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There is a sense of foreboding in Ankara regarding Joe Biden’s presidency.
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The Edge of the Cliff
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ANKARA — The June 24 snap presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey will be highly unfair, but real and still competitive.
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On April 16, Turkey will hold a historic referendum on switching from a parliamentary to a presidential political system.
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A key challenge the new U.S. administration will face in the first 100 days is the partnership with Turkey.
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WARSAW—Tomorrow the foreign ministers of Turkey, Poland, and Romania will meet in Warsaw for the first time in this high-level trilateral...
