Ayşe ATAŞ

Assistant Professor Ayşe ATAŞ works at Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of International Relations. With a scholarly focus on Middle East politics and Turkish foreign policy, she has taught courses including Turkey's Middle East Policy, Cold War History, and Political History since 2018.

• PhD in International Relations (Gazi University, 2007)
• MA in International Relations (Gazi University, 2005)
• BA in International Relations (Gazi University, 2002)

Her research examines geopolitical dynamics in the Middle East, Turkish-Iranian relations, and pandemic impacts on regional stability. She has supervised 6 graduate theses on topics like Iran-Saudi Power Struggles in Yemen and Syria's Impact on Turkish Border Security.

Publications since 2019 analyze nuclear diplomacy, great power competition, and regional conflicts. She led a 2017 research project on the Qatar Crisis' impact on Gulf power balances and collaborates with scholars like Türel Yılmaz Şahin and İskender Karakaya.