Middle East Technical University is a public technical university located in Ankara,Turkey. The university focuses on research and education in engineering,natural sciences and social sciences,offering 41 undergraduate programs across five faculties and 105 master's and 70 doctoral programs through five graduate schools. The main campus of METU spans an area of 11,100 acres (4,500 ha),comprising,in addition to academic and auxiliary facilities,a forest area of 7,500 acres (3,000 ha),and the natural Lake Eymir. METU has more than 120,000 alumni worldwide. The official language of instruction at METU is English.
Bilkent University is a private non-profit research university located in Ankara,Turkey. It was founded by İhsan Doğramacı,the first president of the Council of Higher Education and the head of the prominent Doğramacıfamily,with the aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research in 1984. It has constantly been ranked among the top Turkish universities since its establishment. In 2011,it was ranked 112th in the world by The World University Rankings. Bilkent University was modeled after Harvard University and was the first non-profit private university established in the country. The name Bilkent is an abbreviation of bilim kenti,meaning "city of science" in Turkish.
Çankaya is a municipality and district of Ankara Province,Turkey. Its area is 483 km2,and its population is 942,553 (2022). It is home to many government buildings,including the Grand National Assembly of Turkey,as well as nearly all foreign embassies to Turkey. Çankaya is a cosmopolitan district and considered the cultural and financial center of Ankara.
Mehmet Kemal Ağar is a Turkish former police chief,politician,government minister and leader of the Democratic Party. He was a police officer who rose to General Director of the General Directorate of Security,serving from 1993 to 1995,before entering parliament and serving as a government minister in 1996. Under his reign a close relationship developed between the deep state in Turkey,the Grey Wolves,and the Turkish mafia. It took 15 years until he was tried and sentenced for criminal activities relating to the 1996 Susurluk scandal;he was incarcerated in April 2012 but already released on probation in April 2013.
Ekmel Özbay is a Turkish professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Physics Departments at Bilkent University and the director of the Nanotechnology Research Center,and Space Technologies Research Center (BILUZAY) in Ankara.
The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources is the government ministry of Republic of Turkey responsible for natural resources and energy in Turkey. The ministry is headed by Alparslan Bayraktar. Despite the ministry being represented on the Climate Change and Air Management Coordination Board,the European Commission has criticised the lack of co-ordination between policy on climate change in Turkey and the energy policy of Turkey. The net zero by 2053 target was reportedly set without consulting the ministry,and as of 2023 the ministry has not published a plan to meet the target.
Algerian-Turkish relations refers to the diplomatic relations between Turkey and Algeria. Algeria has an embassy in Ankara and a general consulate in Istanbul. Turkey has an embassy in Algiers. Both countries are full members of the Union for the Mediterranean and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Volkan Ş. Ediger is a Turkish scientist,writer and bureaucrat. After graduating from the Middle East Technical University,he earned his PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in 1986. His training is in geology,geochemistry,and palynology.
Lebanon–Turkey are the bilateral relations between Lebanon and Turkey. Lebanon has an embassy in Ankara and a consulate general in Istanbul. Turkey has an embassy in Beirut. The two nations are connected through history as Lebanon gained independence from the Ottoman Empire. Both countries are members of the Union for the Mediterranean and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Turkey has been a big provider of aid to Lebanon.
Mustafa Kemal Kurdaş was a Turkish economist who served as Turkish Minister of Finance,the IMF’s adviser to Latin American governments,president of the Middle East Technical University and deputy head of the Turkish Treasury.
Energy consumption per person in Turkey is similar to the world average,and over 85 per cent is from fossil fuels. From 1990 to 2017 annual primary energy supply tripled,but then remained constant to 2019. In 2019,Turkey's primary energy supply included around 30 per cent oil,30 per cent coal,and 25 per cent gas. These fossil fuels contribute to Turkey's air pollution and its above average greenhouse gas emissions. Turkey mines its own lignite but imports three-quarters of its energy,including half the coal and almost all the oil and gas it requires,and its energy policy prioritises reducing imports.
Suat Kınıklıoğlu is a Turkish politician,writer and analyst. Kınıklıoğlu began his political career in 1995-1996 with the Democratic Left Party (DSP) in Ankara. Following a break in politics Kınıklıoğlu was elected as Member of Parliament representing Çankırıin the general election of 22 July 2007 on a Justice and Development Party ticket. Kınıklıoğlu was member of the executive board of the AK Party (2009-2012),deputy chairman of external affairs (2007-2011),spokesman of the foreign affairs committee in the Turkish Parliament (2007-2011),chairman of the Turkey-USA Interparliamentary Friendship Group. Since June 2011 Kınıklıoğlu has been executive director of the Center for Strategic Communication,an Ankara-based foreign policy think tank.
The Qatar–Turkey pipeline was a proposal to build a natural gas pipeline from the Iranian–Qatari South Pars/North Dome Gas-Condensate field towards Turkey,where it could connect with the Nabucco pipeline to supply European customers as well as Turkey. One proposed route to Turkey was via Saudi Arabia,Jordan,and Syria,and another was through Saudi Arabia,Kuwait and Iraq.
Nataliya Katser-Buchkovska is a Ukrainian energy security and transition expert,economist,environmental advocate and former Member of Parliament of Ukraine (2014–2019). She has 20 years of professional experience in the field of corporate governance,investments,and energy,including 5 years serving as Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Energy Security and Transition of the Committee on Fuel and Energy,Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety of the Parliament.
Yıldırım Tuğrul Türkeş is a Turkish economist and politician,who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey from 28 August 2015 to 19 July 2017. He first joined the interim election government formed by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on 28 August 2015 as a Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) politician. He later defected to the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and was elected as an MP for the AKP in the November 2015 general election,continuing to serve as Deputy Prime Minister in the subsequent AKP majority government. He has been a Member of Parliament for Ankara's first electoral district since the 2007 general election and is the eldest son of the MHP's founder Alparslan Türkeş. He is the former leader of the Bright Turkey Party (ATP),which he led from 1997 to 2002.
Selin Sayek Böke is a Turkish politician,member of the Republican People's Party (CHP),who has served as a Member of Parliament for İzmir's second electoral district since 7 June 2015. She was first elected at the June 2015 general election. She currently serves as the deputy leader of the CHP responsible for economic policies. Born in the United States,she worked in economics,notably as a lecturer and assistant professor at American universities,before moving to Turkey,the country of her parents.
Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk Koç is a former minister of Family,Labour and Social Services of Turkey.
Idealism,also known as Türkeşism is a Turkish–Islamic synthesist ideology developed by Alparslan Türkeşand the Nationalist Movement Party as a principle of the Nine Lights Doctrine.
Ayyüce TürkeşTaş is a Turkish economist and politician. She is the daughter of Alparslan Türkeşand Member of Parliament from Adana.
Hasan Murat Mercan is a Turkish politician and diplomat who has served as the ambassador of Turkey to the United States from 15 March 2021 until 12 January 2024.
