Galip Dalay

Coordinator, Contemporary Turkey programme

Galip Dalay is a historian and researcher who studies Turkey and its role in global politics. He works at Oxford University as part of a program that focuses on modern Turkey. He is also a Senior Consulting Fellow at Chatham House, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs.

In the past, Dalay has been a researcher at several respected institutions. He was a Mercator-IPC Senior Fellow at the Istanbul Policy Center, worked at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), and was a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. He was also part of the CATS program at SWP, a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Science (IWM) in Vienna, and a non-resident fellow at Brookings Doha Center.

Dalay’s research focuses on Turkey’s relationships with Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. He also studies how global power is shifting, how countries interact after empires and colonialism end, and how Turkey fits into the changing world order.

He has written for well-known publications like Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN, The National Interest, Newsweek, Le Monde, DW Opinion, Open Democracy, Al Jazeera, and Middle East Eye.