Staff profile

Cangul is a Ph.D. Candidate at SGIA, Durham University. In her thesis, she investigates Turkish Foreign Policy towards Iran since the Arab Uprisings under a Neoclassical Realist Account. Prior to her doctoral degree, she completed her MA degree in International Affairs at Penn State University and her BA degree in International Relations at Gazi University.

• Qualitative/Quantitative Methods
• Turkish Foreign Policy
• Middle Eastern Politics
• International Relations Theories

• 2018: Conference Travel Award from School of Government and International Affairs, DurhamUniversity:

Book review

• Altundas-Akcay, Cangul (2020). Iran, Revolution, and Proxy Wars. LSE Review of Books

Chapter in book

• Altundas-Akcay, Cangul (Accepted). Turkey’s Grand Strategy in the Syrian Civil War. In Cambridge University Press.

Conference Paper

• Altundas-Akcay, Cangul (2019), Turkey’s Grand Strategy in the Syrian Civil War, Grand Strategy. Durham, UK.
• Altundas-Akcay, Cangul (2018), The role of AKP Elite Perception in Turkish Foreign Policy towards Iran in the post-Arab Uprisings Era, 13th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. Prag, the Czech Republic.
• Altundas-Akcay, Cangul (2018), Turkish Foreign Policy towards Iran in the post-Arab Uprisings Era: The Case of IraqiKurdistan, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES). London, UK.
• Altundas-Akcay, Cangul (2018), The Role of Domestic Motivations in Turkish Foreign Policy towards Iran in the post-Arab Uprisings Era, British International Studies Association (BISA). Bath, UK.
• Altundas-Akcay, Cangul (2017), The Situation of Iranian Kurds during the Arab Uprisings, British International Studies Association (BISA). Brighton, UK.

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Altundas-Akcay, Cangul (2020). COVID-19’s Impacts on the Future of Civil Wars in the Middle East. LSE Middle East Blog.