Selim Öztürk Associate Professor, Polis Akademisi

I hold a PhD degree in Area Studies in Middle East Technical University in 2018 on “the
role of Salafism on state formations”. I lectured in Security Sciences Dep. in the Police
Academy from 2018 to 2021. I held my associate professorship degree in 2021. I was
appointed as the cultural attaché of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv in 2021, and served
in that diplomatic post for three years in Israel. I continued to lecture in the Police
Academy on middle eastern politics. He is an author of the book “Taliban and Islamic
State: Terrorists or State Builders”.