Hüseyin Bağcı

Hüseyin Bağcı is a Professor of International Relations at Middle East Technical University in Ankara. In 1988, he received his Ph. D. in Political Science from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn. From 2020 to 2024, he was the president of the Turkish Foreign Policy Institute. He was A guest researcher at the German Society for Foreign Affairs (DGAP) in Bonn, and Senior Fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) in Bonn and at the Landesverteidigungsakademie und Militarwissenshaftliches Büro des Bundesministeriums für Landesverteidigung in Vienna.

He has published several books and large number of articles on Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkish-German relations. Prof. Bağcı is a famous TV and Radio Commentator in Turkey. He is also a member of IISS in London and Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium. Prof. Bağcı has been visiting Professor at the University of Bonn (Anna Maria Schimmel Professor) 2007, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 2007 (Italy) and University of Lublin, 2008, (Poland) and 2010-2011 Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany).Also, he has been teaching at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa since 2014. Prof. Bağcı is widely quoted also by national and international press.