{"id":399,"date":"2016-09-04T17:22:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T14:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fppr.ihsandemiray.com\/index.php\/?p=399"},"modified":"2017-12-18T14:53:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T12:53:39","slug":"doc-dr-nihat-ali-ozcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/en\/2016\/09\/doc-dr-nihat-ali-ozcan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Nihat Ali \u00d6zcan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Nihat Ali \u00d6zcan received his Bachelors degree both from the Military Academy\/Ankara and Istanbul University Faculty of Law. Dr. \u00d6zcan holds a Master and D.Phil. from 9 Eyl\u00fcl University. His doctoral dissertation was the first academic work on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Dr. \u00d6zcan retired from Turkish Armed Forces as a Major in March 1998. Dr. \u00d6zcan worked extensively on terrorism, counterinsurgency and Middle Eastern politics at various research centers in Turkey. Dr. \u00d6zcan taught several courses in 9 Eyl\u00fcl University Faculty of Law, Hacettepe University, Military Academy Institute for Defense Sciences, Institute for National Security, War Academies and TOBB University of Economics and Technology. Dr. \u00d6zcan was a Acedemic Visitor at Oxford University, History Faculty CWW program, between Agust 2010 \u2013May 2011. Dr. \u00d6zcan, also wrote several columns and opinion pieces for different newspapers and appeard on several TV programmes. Dr.\u00d6zcan is the author of the book \u201cKurdistan Workers Party: History, Ideology and Methods\u201d (in Turkish). He has authored several articles in prestigious journals on the Kurdish issue, PKK terrorism, Turkish politics and Middle Eastern Politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Nihat Ali \u00d6zcan received his Bachelors degree both from the Military Academy\/Ankara and Istanbul University Faculty of Law. Dr. \u00d6zcan holds a Master and D.Phil. from 9 Eyl\u00fcl University. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-of-trustees-en"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}