Özden Zeynep Oktav

GRM 2013 Workshop: The GCC States-Turkey Relations: Opportunities and Challenges

Department of Political Science & International Relations - Yıldız Technical University

Dr. Ozden Zeynep Oktav is an Associate Professor and a lecturer at Yıldız Technical University, Department of Political Science and International Relations. She obtained her BA in English Language and Literature at Bogazici University, Department of English Language and Literature in 1984. She received her MA and Ph.D. degrees from the same university in 1987 and 1992. She is the author of Limits of Relations with the West: Turkey, Syria and Iran (Beta, Istanbul, 2008) and The Changing Dynamics of the Arab Gulf and Saudi Arabia-US-Iran Relations (Beta, Istanbul, 2011); and editor of Turkey in 4 the 21st Century: Quest for a New Foreign Policy (Ashgate, Burlington, 2011). Besides, she has contributed various book chapters and articles including “The Limits of Change: Turkey, Iran, Syria” in Nursin Atesoglu Guney (ed.), Contentious Issues of Security and Future of Turkey (Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007); “The October 1998 Crisis: The Change of Heart of Turkish Foreign Policy Towards Syria?” CEMOTI, June 2001, no.31, 142-163, and “The Gulf States and Iran: A Turkish Perspective,” Middle East Policy, Vol. XVIII, no. 2 (Summer 2011).