Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Sarıaslan graduated from the Department of International Relations at Istanbul University Faculty of Political Sciences in 2003, where she completed her undergraduate education. She received her master's degree from the same department at Istanbul University in 2006 and her doctorate from Uludağ University in 2016. After working at the Undersecretariat of Foreign Trade (now the Ministry of Trade) between 2005 and 2018, she began her full-time academic career at Bursa Technical University in 2018. Since 2022, she has been a faculty member at the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Sciences, Istanbul Medeniyet University. Her areas of expertise include Turkish political life and foreign policy, Middle Eastern politics, global economic policy, and Islamophobia.