Ümit Cizre

Ümit Cizre (born 1946 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 (2009).

Books Secular and Islamic politics in Turkey. The making of the Justice and Development Party (London and New York: Routledge, 2008) Almanac Turkey 2005 – Security Sector and Its Democratic Oversight (2006), TESEV AP-Ordu İlişkileri-Bir İkilemin Anatomisi, Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları, Second Edition, November 2002.