Mustafa Öztop

Biography

Mustafa Öztop was born in 1988 in Bucak/Burdur. Completing his high school education in Bucak Anatolian High School in 2006, he was admitted to the Education Faculty at Sakarya University and graduated from the Faculty in 2010. He started to work as a member of the broadcast staff at TRT in 2011. Afterwards, he completed his graduate education at Süleyman Demirel University in 2015 and continues his doctoral studies in the Middle East Research Institute, Department of Political History and International Relations of the Middle East at Marmara University. He conducts studies on Middle East Politics, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Policy, Turkish Foreign Policy and cooperation among Islamic countries. In addition, he works on his thesis which centers on Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy during King Faisal’s reign.

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