Ümit Cizre
{{Short description|Turkish political scientist}}
Ümit Cizre (born 1946) is a Turkish academic, and a leading expert on civilian-military relations in Turkey.Yavuz Baydar, Today's Zaman, 3 March 2010, [http://todayszaman.com/columnistDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=203138 ‘Mother of all problems’]Today's Zaman, 20 February 2011, [http://www.todayszaman.com/news-236100-militarys-retreat-from-politics-would-be-illusory-without-more-measures.html ‘Military’s retreat from politics would be illusory without more measures’] She is a professor of political science and international relations at Istanbul Şehir University.sehir.edu.tr, [http://www.sehir.edu.tr/en/Pages/Academic/AcademicList.aspx?akademid=74 Prof Ümit Cizre] She is the editor of Almanac Turkey 2005 – Security Sector and Its Democratic Oversight (2006), which gained public attention in Turkey.Hurriyet, 7 September 2009, [http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/12032451.asp ’Civilian oversight over security forces is weaker’]Today's Zaman, 14 July 2009, [http://todayszaman.com/columnistDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=180850 Turkish security almanac contributes to civilianization]
Career
After graduating from London University in 1968 she gained a masters from Middle East Technical University in 1982 and a doctorate from Ankara University in 1987. She was at the Bilkent University in Ankara, later becoming director
of the Center for Modern Turkish Studies at Istanbul Şehir University in 2010.esiweb.org, [http://www.esiweb.org/pdf/cv%20-%20umit%20cizre.pdf Umit Cizre]
She has been a Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor at Princeton University, and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2009).Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/staff/umit-cizre Umit Cizre]
Books
- Secular and Islamic politics in Turkey. The making of the Justice and Development Party (London and New York: Routledge, 2008)
- [http://www.tesev.org.tr/Upload/Editor/Almanak-2005-Ingilizce-Tam%20Metin.pdf Almanac Turkey 2005 – Security Sector and Its Democratic Oversight] (2006), TESEV
- [http://www.iletisim.com.tr/kitap/ap-ordu-ilişkileri-31.aspx AP-Ordu İlişkileri-Bir İkilemin Anatomisi], Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları, Second Edition, November 2002.
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