ALPAY, Şahin

Political scientist, journalist and writer (b. 18 April 1944, Ayvalık / Balıkesir). He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences (1967). He received his doctorate degree on political sciences at Stockholm University in Sweden (1981). He worked as a researcher at Ankara University, Faculty of Education (1968-71) and at Stockholm University, Department of Political Science (1972-81). After he returned to Türkiye, he worked as an editor and columnist on the newspapers Cumhuriyet (1982-92), Sabah (1993-94) and Milliyet (1994-2001). During these years, he gave lectures at Anadolu and Boğaziçi University in Türkiye and at Princeton University in United States.

He has been an academician at Bahçeşehir University, Department of Political Sciences and International Relations since April 2001. He presented the weekly interview program Entellektüel Bakış for CNN-Türk television channel between 1999 and 2002 and has been a columnist at the newspaper Zaman since November 2002.

WORKS:

Turkar i Stockholm: En Studie av Invandrare, Samhalle och Politik (Turks in Stockholm: A Social and Political Research on Immigrants, 1980), SHP-DSP Nerede Birleşiyor Nerede Ayrılıyor (Similarities and Contrasts Between the Social Democratic Populist Party and the Democratic Leftist Party, 1986), 2000 Yılında Türkiye (Türkiye in 2000, 1991), Türkiye'nin Tanıkları - İçerden Bakanlar (Witnesses of Türkiye – Ones That Look From Inside, 2002), Türkiye'nin Tanıkları - Dışardan Bakanlar (Witnesses of Türkiye – Ones That Look From Outside, 2003).