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Füsun Türkmen

Füsun Türkmen is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Galatasaray University. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Füsun Türkmen graduated from the French Catholic High School Notre Dame de Sion in Istanbul before attending George Washington University in Washington D.C., where she obtained her B.A. in Political Science with honors, Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science Honor Society) and Pi Delta Phi (French Honor Society) in 1982. She then completed her Ph.D. at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland in 1991. During her doctoral studies, she was the editor-in-chief of the bilingual publication of the Institute, the Cahiers d’Histoire et Politique Internationales (1983-1989), Salzburg Seminar fellow (1986), and intern at the U.N. Centre for Human Rights (1988-89) where she worked on the technical report of the then Draft Convention on the Rights of the Child. After completion of her Ph.D. thesis entitled “President Carter’s Human Rights Policy towards the USSR” she became an international civil servant at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) until 1996. Since 1999, she has been teaching human rights and US foreign policy at Galatasaray University’s Department of International Relations. She has published extensively (in Turkey, France, the US and Great Britain) on human rights, US Foreign Policy, Turkish-US and Turkey-EU relations. She is fluent in English, French, and Italian.
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