Dr. Öğr. Üyesi MURAT TINAS

Dr. Murat TINAS works as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security Sciences, Turkish National Police Academy. Dr. Tınas also works as an academic adviser in several projects organized by the NATO (Centre of Excellence – Defense Against Terrorism, CEO-DAT) and the EU (European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training, CEPOL). He received his Ph.D. in Area Studies at the Middle East Technical University (2016). His Ph.D. dissertation title is Sectarian Groups as Sub-state Foreign Policy Actors: The Case Study of Lebanon. He studied Arabic in Jordan during his graduate studies and also worked as an affiliate researcher at the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, American University of Beirut in Lebanon. He teaches ‘Geopolitics of the Middle East’, ‘Politics in Lebanon’, ‘Radicalism, Violence and Terrorism’ and ‘Intelligence in International Relations.’ His major academic interests include the Middle East Politics, radicalization, terrorism, foreign fighters and foreign policy analysis in addition to Intelligence Studies.