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Prof Bulent Gokay
Bulent Gokay is a professor of international relations at Keele University. He is a lecturer at Keele since 1996 from Wolfson College, Cambridge, where he had been a postdoctoral Research Fellow for the previous three years. Before coming to Keele, he taught at the Birkbeck College-London, University of North London, and at the University of Cambridge. He is the founder of the Eurasian Studies Network and co-founder of the Keele Southeast Europe Unit and the Forum for Sport in Global Politics and Society. Bulent Gokay’s recent books include The Politics of Caspian Oil by Palgrave in 2001; Eastern Europe Since 1970 by Longman in 2005 (second edition in 2006), The New American Imperialism: Bush's War on Terror and Blood for Oil, co-authored with Vassilis K. Fouskas, published by Greenwood Publishing Group in 2005; Soviet Eastern Policy and Turkey, 1920-1991 by Routledge in 2006, and Politics of Oil – A Survey, by Routledge in 2006.Prof. Gulnur Muradoglu
Gulnur Muradoglu has worked for Manchester School of Accounting and Finance as the Director of the M.Sc Finance Program and for Bilkent University as assistant and associate professor respectively. She has been at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania as a Fulbrighter and Warwick Business School as a Visiting Fellow. She is doing research on behavioral finance and emerging markets. She is on the Editorial Boards of the journals Comparative Economic Systems, Finance Letters and Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. She has published more than thirty articles in various journals including Journal of Behavioural Finance, Journal of Economics and Business, International Journal of Business, European Journal of Finance, Multinational Finance Journal, Applied Financial Economics, Developing Economies,European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Forecasting, International Journal of Forecasting, and Applied Economics Letters. She has chaired the 11th Multinational Finance Society meeting in Istanbul in 2004 and she will chair the Euro working Group meeting to be held in London in 2006.
Prof. Talip Kucukcan
Talip Kucukcan is a Professor of Sociology and Religion at Marmara University, Istanbul; and an Advisor to the President of Higher Education Council of Turkey, Ankara. Dr. Kucukcan received a BA in Islamic Studies, Uludag University, Turkey; an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies in Religious Studies and Politics , University of London, and a PhD in Sociology/Ethnic Relations from the University of Warwick. He works on freedom of religion, comparative secularism, state policies towards religious minorities and Muslim communities in Europe and the role of higher education in intercultural relations. His publications include Politics of Ethnicity, Identity and Religion: Turkish-Muslims in Britain, Avebury: Ashgate (1999); EuroTurks and Turkey-EU Relations: The Dutch Case, (co-authored with V. Gungor), Amsterdam: Turkevi Research Centre, 2006; Turks in Europe: Culture, Identity, Integration (co-edited with V. Gungor), Amsterdam: Turkevi Research Centre, 2009; State-Religion Relations in Europe (co-edited with Ali Kose), İstanbul: Centre for Islamic Studies, 2008 (in Turkish).