Burak Bilgehan Özpek is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey. His main research interests include the de facto states, Kurdish question, contemporary politics of the Middle East and Turkish foreign policy.

Bill Park is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Defence Studies Department at King's College, London, UK. He is on the editorial board of Mediterranean Politics and the Council of the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA), and specialises in Turkish foreign policy and Kurdish issues.