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Serkan Birgel

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Dr Serkan Birgel is a researcher at TRT World Research Centre. He holds a PhD from the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, and a Master’s degree in Geopolitics, Territory and Security from King’s College London. His research interests include geopolitics and the natural resource/energy nexus – with particular emphasis on the Eastern Mediterranean region.

 

Items by Serkan Birgel

  • The trouble with letting Assad ‘win’

    Without substantial change on the part of the Assad regime, effective intervention and deterrence measures are still absolutely necessary in Syria. How such policy action materialises is debatable, but should not come at the cost of whitewashing the regime. Those who argue against intervention or deterrence, without insisting on...