Gokhan Cinkara is a researcher, a columnist, and an analyst. He is an assistant professor at Necmettin Erbakan University, and previously he was a researcher at Ankara University on comparative politics, political parties, constitutional institutes, political sociology, intellectual history, and Israeli studies. He was a visiting researcher at Brandeis University in 2018 and a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 2016-17. Cinkara received his PhD in political science from Ankara University.