Dr. Zekiye Nazli Kansu an Assistant Professor at Canakkale 18 Mart University in the Political Sciences Faculty, Economics Department. She graduated from Istanbul University with a Political Science and International Relations B.A. degree and graduated from Marmara University with an International Economics M.A. degree. She studied for her Ph.D. at Marmara University on Political Economy of the Middle East major. Her expertise area is political economy, Middle East, and eastern Mediterranean issues. She worked in the United Nations, NY for a while. She was granted TUBİTAK (Turkey’s National Scholarship) scholarship to conduct her PhD research at UMASS, MA, USA. She still conducts my research in Canakkale 18 Mart University on my expertise areas.