Bahadir Pehlivanturk

In Hacettepe University I am responsible for the following classes: International Relations I&II: (First term is a class on IR theories and the second term is the application of these theories to various IR issues and topics ranging from Migration, Human Rights, Humanitarian Intervention, Poverty and Development to Security, Environment, Gender. etc.) Nationalism and Ethnicity, Asia-Pacific International Relations, and Japanese Foreign Policy.

During the time of working ASAM was the prominent think-tank in Turkey. I worked there as a Policy Analyst and has written over 20 articles in various lengths and topics on Asia-Pacific issues and international relations in general. Participated conferences, meetings, workshops and made numerous presentations. Currently I am also involved in another think-tank (called SDE) performing similar tasks

Sales, Responsible for the Japanese market and company’s relations with Japan

Research in: Overseas Chinese Networks, Japanese Studies, Migration, Southeast Asian Political Economy, Science of Networks, Social Capital Doctoral Thesis Title: “’Small Worlds’ of Overseas Chinese Networks: A Network Science Approach”

Machine Translation, Computational Linguistics (NLP)

Master’s Thesis Title: ‘Japanese Economic Policy in Southeast Asia’

Computer Engineering