Editorial Team

Founding Editor

Prof. Dr. Alim Yılmaz
Istanbul Medeniyet University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration

Prof. Dr. Alim Yılmaz graduated from the Department of Philosophy at the Middle East Technical University  in 1987. He completed his master’s degree in 1993 and his PhD in 2001 at the same university, in the Department of Philosophy, Institute of Social Sciences. He was awarded the title of Associate Professor in 2014 and Professor in 2020. Prof. Yılmaz currently serves as a faculty member in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Istanbul Medeniyet University. His research focuses on political thought, contemporary political philosophy and ethics, political ideologies, and political psychology.

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Dr. Hayrettin Özler
Kütahya Dumlupınar University, Department of  Public Administration

Prof. Dr. Hayrettin Özler graduated from Istanbul University Department of Business in 1993. In 1994 he won the Turkish Ministry of Education Higher Education Scholarship to study abroad and moved to Britain in 1995. He obtained an MBA (Master in Business Administration) Degree from Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield Business School. He left his PhD studies on Business and Management at Management School of Sheffield University halfway and moved to Glasgow in 1998. Then he obtained a PhD degree on political science at the University of Strathclyde, Department of Government in 2001 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. David Judge.

He studied extensively on state and collective action theories during PhD studies and following years. He started to work at Kütahya Dumlupınar University in 2002 in exchange for the scholarship he received. He still employed at the same institution and hold the title of professorship since 2020. His contemporaneous academic interests are in political sociology and political psychology in general. On a more specific level, he is interested in collective action, utopia, institutional change, construction of nationalistic psyche, construction of political theology of religion etc. He wrote one of the earliest text books in political psychology in Turkish (2014) and has attended academic events particularly organised around the subject of political psychology in Turkey.

Section Editors

Dr. Yasemin Abayhan
Hacettepe University, Department of Psychology
Areas: Psychology, social psychology

Dr. Muhammet Erdal Okutan
Marmara University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration
Areas: Political science, constitutional law, political theory

Dr. İkram Bağcı
Ministry of Labor (Department Head)
Areas: Political behavior, voter behavior, political sociology and psychology

Dr. Didem Geylani
Istanbul Medeniyet University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration
Areas: Bureaucracy, democracy, political participation

Dr. Hülya Kevser Yurdakul
Istanbul Medeniyet University
Areas: Political psychology

Editorial Board

  • Prof. Dr. Ahmet Kemal Bayram — Marmara University
  • Prof. Dr. Ahmet Nohutçu — Istanbul Medeniyet University
  • Prof. Dr. Bekir Berat Özipek — Istanbul Medipol University
  • Prof. Dr. Bengül Güngörmez — Uludağ University
  • Prof. Dr. Deniz Ülke Kaynak— Üsküdar University
  • Prof. Dr. Devrim Özkan — Gaziantep University
  • Prof. Dr. Erhan İçener — Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University
  • Prof. Dr. Erol Göka — University of Health Sciences
  • Prof. Dr. Haluk Alkan — Istanbul Commerce University
  • Prof. Dr. Hamit Ersoy — Ambassador of Türkiye to Brunei
  • Prof. Dr. Ömer Çaha — Istanbul Commerce University
  • Prof. Dr. Sedat Yazıcı — Bartın University
  • Prof. Dr. Tarkan Oktay — Istanbul Medeniyet University
  • Prof. Dr. Yılmaz Çolak — Turkish National Police Academy
  • Prof. Dr. İdil Tuncer Kılavuz — Istanbul Medeniyet University
  • Prof. Dr. İbrahim Sarıtaş — Hacı Bayram Veli University
  • Assoc. Prof. Burcu Taşkın — Istanbul Medeniyet University
  • Assoc. Prof. Leyla Ulus — Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa
  • Assoc. Prof. Ömer Baykal — Bartın University
  • Asst. Prof. Ahmet Demirden — Turkish National Police Academy
  • Asst. Prof. Barış Aydın — Akdeniz University
  • Asst. Prof. Nur Funda Başer Baykal — Bartın University
  • Asst. Prof. Mesut Malik Yavuz — Istanbul Medeniyet University

International Advisory Board

  • Prof. Dr. Cevat Özyurt — Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University
  • Prof. Dr. Hüsnul Amin — National Defence University, Islamabad
  • Prof. Dr. Jason Brennan — Georgetown University
  • Prof. Dr. Mustafa Orçan — Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University
  • Prof. Dr. Richard Epstein — University of Chicago
  • Asst. Prof. Fatmanil Döner — University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)