Ümit Cizre


Ümit Cizre is a Turkish academic, and a leading expert on civilian-military relations in Turkey. She is a professor of political science and international relations at Istanbul Şehir University. She is the editor of Almanac Turkey 2005 – Security Sector and Its Democratic Oversight, which gained public attention in Turkey.

Career

After graduating from London University in 1968 she gained a masters from Middle East Technical University in 1982 and a doctorate from Ankara University in 1987. She was at the Bilkent University in Ankara, later becoming director
of the Center for Modern Turkish Studies at Istanbul Şehir University in 2010.
She has been a Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor at Princeton University, and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Books

Secular and Islamic politics in Turkey. The making of the Justice and Development Party ', TESEV