Assistant Professor Mehmet Ali Tuğtan has been a lecturer of international relations in Istanbul Bilgi University since 2008. Graduated from Boğaziçi University PhD program in 2007, Prof. Tugtan specializes in contemporary World politics, Turkish foreign policy and security studies. He has published on contemporary Turkish foreign policy, Turkish participation in the Korean War, terrorism, and natural disasters as a security threat. Prof. Tugtan was born in 1974.