Gürkan Demir completed his master's degree with a thesis titled “Turkey's Preventive Intervention Strategy in the Fight Against Terrorism” at Istanbul Commerce University's Department of Political Science and International Relations. He then earned another master's degree in Public Diplomacy. His areas of expertise include terrorism, international security, the Balkans, public diplomacy, and political communication. Demir has edited two books, Regional Perspectives on 21st Century Turkish Foreign Policy and Geopolitics Revisited: The Search for Regional Stability, and has authored another book, Turkey's Counterterrorism Strategy. Demir is a columnist for Milat Newspaper and works as a researcher at the Türkiye Research Foundation.