Press
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Short introduction
Here you can find the columns of sociologist and author Yasin Aktay, news about him, and the panels, conferences and talks he has taken part in.
Biography
Yasin Aktay was born in 1966 in Siirt. He completed his bachelor's degree (1990), master's degree (1993) and doctorate (1997) in the Department of Sociology at Middle East Technical University (METU).
From 1992 to 2012 he worked as a faculty member at Selçuk University, becoming an associate professor in 1999 and a full professor in 2005. Since 2012 he has been teaching in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University. He is a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA).
He has been writing columns for the newspaper Yeni Şafak since 2006. From 2010 to 2014 he served as president of the Strategic Thinking Institute (SDE); he is the editor-in-chief of Tezkire magazine.
In the AK Party he served as Deputy Chairman responsible for foreign relations and human rights and as party spokesperson; from 2015 to 2018 he was a member of parliament for Siirt.
In numbers
- 2619+ columns
- 64 books
Contact
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