Sylvia Tiryaki


Sylvia Tiryaki is the Deputy Director of the Global Political Trends Center, a policy oriented research institution under the auspices of Istanbul Kültür University, which she co-founded with her colleague Mensur Akgün in 2008. Tiryaki is the former Vice-Chair of the International Relations Department at Istanbul Kültür University where she currently teaches courses on international law, introduction to law, human rights and history of political thought.
Tiryaki completed her Master's and doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. In addition, she holds a Ph.D degree in European Studies and Politics from the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of Comenius University.
From 1996 to 2002, Tiryaki worked as a lawyer. Between 2003 and 2008, she was a senior research fellow and coordinated a series of Cyprus projects at the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, Foreign Policy Program.
Tiryaki writes for various national and international academic journals and newspapers. She is an expert in the fields of Turkish foreign policy, human security, Cyprus, the Middle East and North Africa, Armenia, and the European Union. She has been serving as an adviser to the World Handicapped Foundation since 2011 and was an honorary board member of the Human Security Collective from 2013 to 2017.

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