Recep Tayyip Gürler graduated from Department of International Relations at Sakarya University in 2012. At the same year he began his study for master degree in Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the same University. He also works as Research Assistant at Sakarya University since 2012. He is still studying on Iraq at Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Sakarya University.

rtgurler@gmail.com

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Topic of Thesis:

Master Thesis: "Role of Shia Actors in Iraqi Politics" (2013-2016)

Research Fields

• Domestic Policy of Iraq
• Iraqi Shiite Political Actors
• Foreign Policy of Iraq
• Sunni-Shiite Conflict in the Middle East
• History of Shiism

Publications:

Book Chapters

• "Iraq: A Country in the Swirl of Sectarian Conflict", (ed) A. E. Dağ, Middle East Conflicts, İHH İnsani ve Sosyal Araştırmalar Merkezi, January 2015, pp. 118 – 143. (Turkish)

Published Articles in Refereed Journals

• "Turkey's Soft Power towards Central Asian Countries after the Cold War", İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University Journal of Social Science, Spring Term, 2013.

• "El-Kaide'den Post-Kaide'ye Dönüşüm: IŞİD", "From Al-Qaeda to Post-Qaeda: The Evolution of ISIS" (With Ömer Behram Özdemir), Journal of Turkey-Middle East Studies, Vol.1, No.1, Spring, 2014.

• "Iraq", (With Rıdvan Kalaycı), Middle East Yearbook 2013, (eds.) K. İnat ve M. Ataman, İstanbul: Açılım Kitap, January 2015. (Turkish)

• "Iraq", (With Rıdvan Kalaycı), Middle East Yearbook 2014, (eds.) K. İnat ve M. Ataman, İstanbul: Açılım Kitap, May 2015. (Turkish)

• "Turkey's Iraq Policy 2015", (With Ali Balcı and Zana Baykal), Turkish Foreign Policy Yearbook 2015, (eds) B. Duran, K. İnat, Ankara: SETA Publications, May 2016, pp. 159-180. (Turkish)

Conference Presentations

• T. Gürler, "Shia Politics in Iraq after the U.S. Occupation", VI. Uludağ Uluslararası İlişkiler Konferansı, "Jeopolitiğin Dönüşü Mü? Genişletilmiş Bölgelerde Aktif Diplomasi Zamanı", 25-27 Kasım 2014, Uludağ Üniversitesi, Mete Cengiz Kültür Merkezi, Bursa, Türkiye.

Report-Analysis

• Recep Tayyip Gürler, "Irak'ta 20 Nisan 2013 Yerel Seçim Sonuçları", (Results of Provincial Elections in Iraq at 20 April 2013), Ortadoğu Araştırmaları Analiz Serisi, No: 6, 29 Mayıs 2013, Ortadoğu Enstitüsü, Sakarya, ss. 1-4.

• "ISIS: Native in the Iraq Foreign in the Syria", (With Omer Behram Ozdemir), Middle East Analysis (Ortadogu Analiz), July-August 2014, Vol: 6, No: 63, pp. 58-62. (Turkish)

• "Fallujah Operations and Shia-Sunni Conflict", Middle East Analysis (Ortadogu Analiz), July-August 2016, Vol: 8, No: 75, pp. 64-65. (Turkish)

• "From Tawhid wal Jihad to the Islamic State", (With Omer Behram Ozdemir), SETA Perspective, August 2014, No: 60, pp. 01-08. (Turkish)

• "Mosul Policies of Regional Powers in the Middle East", (With Kemal İnat, Mustafa Caner and the Others), SETA Analysis, December 2016, No: 177. (Turkish)

• "Regional Reflections of the Iran-Saudi Arabian Competition", (With Kemal İnat and the Others), SETA Analysis, January 2016, No: 148. (Turkish)