Sylvia Tiryaki is a scholar, political analyst and civil society

Civil society

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 activist of Slovak

Slovaks

The Slovaks, Slovak people, or Slovakians are a West Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.Most Slovaks today live within the borders of the independent Slovakia...

 origin, who founded the Global Political Trends Center

GPoT Center

GPoT Center officially the Global Political Trends Center is a research unit, which was established by Mensur Akgun and Sylvia Tiryaki at the Istanbul Kültür University in Turkey in 2008...

 with her colleague Mensur Akgun

Mensur Akgün

Mensur Akgün is a Turkish scholar, political analyst, columnist in Turkish daily Referans and civil society activist. Together with his colleague Sylvia Tiryaki he founded the Global Political Trends Center, an Istanbul based research institution, which is operating under the auspices of Istanbul...

 in 2008, a policy oriented research

Research

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 institution under the auspices of Istanbul Kültür University

Istanbul Kültür University

- About İKÜ :İstanbul Kültür University is a private university located in İstanbul, Turkey. It has three campuses, Ataköy, Bahçelievler and İncirli. The University was founded in 1997 and has five schools and two vocational schools...

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Tiryaki was a regular columnist

Columnist

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 at the Turkish Daily News

Turkish Daily News

The Hürriyet Daily News, formerly Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review, is the oldest current English-language daily in Turkey....

 and writes occasionally for various Turkish newspapers and journals. She teaches classes on international law

International law

Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states; analogous entities, such as the Holy See; and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond...

, philosophy

Philosophy

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, political thought and human rights

Human rights

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 at the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences at the Istanbul Kültür University

Istanbul Kültür University

- About İKÜ :İstanbul Kültür University is a private university located in İstanbul, Turkey. It has three campuses, Ataköy, Bahçelievler and İncirli. The University was founded in 1997 and has five schools and two vocational schools...

. She worked as a Cyprus

Cyprus

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 project coordinator and a senior research fellow

Research fellow

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 at the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation

Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation

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 (TESEV).(21 July 2007). Turci teď o EU nechtějí ani slyšet, říká analytička, Mladá fronta DNES

Mladá fronta DNES

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(in Czech)

Tiryaki obtained her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Comenius University in Bratislava

Bratislava

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...

, Slovakia

Slovakia

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. She has co-authored number of books, wrote analytical reports and articles. She has traveled extensively and participated in various workshops and international conferences as a representative of both the civil society

Civil society

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 and academia

Academia

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Her areas of interest include human rights

Human rights

Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

, international law

International law

Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states; analogous entities, such as the Holy See; and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond...

, Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

, Middle East

Middle East

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, European Union

European Union

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, Israel-Palestine, and Armenia

Armenia

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Publications

• Finding Common Grounds - Rediscovering the Common Narrative of Turkey and Europe. Bratislava: RC SFPA, 2009. (Edited book)
• A Promise to Keep: Time to end the international isolation of the Turkish Cypriots. Istanbul: TESEV Publications, June 2008. (Edited book)
• EU Accession Prospects for Turkey and Ukraine: Debates in New Member States. Warsaw: Institute of Public Affairs, 2006. (Edited book)
• Quo Vadis Cyprus?. Istanbul: TESEV Publications, April 2005. (Edited book)
• Freedom Flotila: Before and Aftermath in Middle East Observer. Anhens: Security and Defence Analysis Institute, Vol. 1, issue 3, August 2010.
• Ending the Isolation of Turkish Cypriots in Insight Turkey. Istanbul: SETA Foundation, Vol. 12, No. 1/2010, February 2010.
• European Identity 2006 in International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs. Bratislava: RC SFPA, Vol. 1, 2006.
• The Annan Plan: A Missed Opportunity. World Security Network, 14 May 2004.

External links

• Global Political Trends Center
• Istanbul Kültür University