Mehmet İlhanlı

Mehmet İlhanlı is a joint PhD researcher in Geography at the National University of Singapore and King’s College London, where he also serves as a teaching assistant. He holds an MA in Political Science from the University of Cologne and a BA in International Relations from Istanbul Bilgi University. He previously worked as General Coordinator at the Diyarbakır Institute for Political and Social Research and as a consultant at the European Partnership for Democracy. He is co-founder of Young Peacebuilders of Turkey. His research focuses on critical approaches to international relations, geopolitics, and geoeconomics, with a particular interest in the geopolitics of corridorization, including the Belt and Road Initiative, Global Gateway, and Development Road. He is an alumnus of the Swedish Institute Leadership Hub and the Boğaziçi European School of Politics.