Vahap Polat

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Vahap Polat (born 1973 in Turkey ) is a freelance journalist, publicist and consultant specializing in political Islam, domestic political development and the history of Turkey.

Polat graduated from the military high school and attended the Army Academy in Ankara. He then studied political science at the University of Salzburg from 2000 and graduated in 2006. After a research stay at the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, he wrote his dissertation between 2008 and 2012 at the University of Salzburg.

He worked as an analyst at the International Institute for Liberal Politics Vienna. Vahap Polat was active in Vienna as a voluntary representative of the Euro-Asian Foundation of Turkey. Together with the political education center in Leipzig, he organized study trips a. a. with a focus on Turkish foreign policy, political Islam, Turkey - EU relations.

As a journalist, Polat writes articles for the Rhein-Zeitung.

Publications

• Islam and Democracy: Religious and Political Elements; Identifying the conditions under which both are compatible. (Diploma thesis), University of Salzburg, 2004.
• The foreign policy of Turkey: the strategic orientation of Turkey in change 2002–2012, ideologies that influence the foreign policy of Turkey. (Dissertation), 2 volumes, University of Salzburg 2012.
• Derin yalnızlık: AKP'nin dış politikası ve elit politikaları . In: Kaynak yayınları . No. 790 . Istanbul 2015, ISBN 978-975-343-942-8 .
• Turkish foreign and security policy in transition. From “zero problems with the neighbor” to “noble loneliness” . In: Johann Puchler, Johann Frank (Ed.): Strategy and Security 2014. Europe's security architecture in transition . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2014, p. 637-650 , doi : 10.7767 / sus-2014-0155 .
• Austria and Austrian foreign and security policy from a Turkish perspective . In: Johann Puchler, Johann Frank (Ed.): Strategy and Security 2012. The scope for shaping Austrian security policy . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2012, p. 793-801 , doi : 10.7767 / sus.2012.2012.1.793 .
• On the foreign and domestic politics of Turkey (=  social science series ). International Institute for Liberal Politics, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902595-43-0 .