Suat Kınıklıoğlu

Suat Kınıklıoğlu (born 1 May 1965) is a Turkish politician, writer, analyst and think tank director.

In May 2026 He became the general manager of Metropoll Strategic and Social Research, Turkey's most renown public polling company.

Kınıklıoğlu was elected as a Member of Parliament for Çankırı from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the general election of 22 July 2007. During his parliamentary term (2007–2011) he served as spokesman of the foreign affairs committee, member of the Turkish Group in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and chairman of the Turkey–USA Interparliamentary Friendship Group. He also held the positions of AKP deputy chairman for external affairs and member of the party's Central Decision and Executive Committee.

In 2012 he resigned from the AKP and became a public critic of the party. In 2014 he managed the election campaign of the main opposition CHP candidate for Ankara mayor, Mansur Yavaş.

Early life and education Kınıklıoğlu was born on 1 May 1965 in Duisburg, Germany. He is also a senior research fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) in Stockholm and a senior non-resident fellow at the Center for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) at SWP Berlin. He has held several international fellowships, including senior fellow at the Center for American Progress (2014), resident fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics (2015), and academic visitor at the University of Oxford Middle East Centre (2018–2019). In 2013 he was invited to become a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. Kınıklıoğlu is a regular contributor to the international media including the Financial Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune and the Guardian.

He comments frequently to the Turkish and international media on Turkish domestic and foreign policy issues.

Apart from his native Turkish Mr. Kınıklıoğlu speaks English, German and some Russian.

Select bibliography Eurasianism in Turkey, SWP Research Paper, 22 March 2022