Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Aslan is a faculty member in the Department of International Relations at Ibn Haldun University. Aslan completed his undergraduate education at Fatih University in 2002 and received his master's degree from the same university in 2004. He earned his doctorate from the University of Delaware in the United States in 2012. His areas of expertise include international relations theories, political regimes, political parties, and Turkish political life. He works as a senior researcher at the Turkish Studies Foundation.