The General Condition of Contemporary Humanity
Commentary by Prof. Dr. Özcan Yeniçeri
Prof. Dr. Özcan Yeniçeri
Editorial Board Member, Bosphorus News
Özcan Yeniçeri is a Turkish academic and author whose work ranges across management theory, political philosophy and Turkish history from the Ottoman era to the present. He completed his doctorate at Erciyes University in 1991, became an associate professor in 1998 and a full professor in 2004.
He founded and chaired the international relations department at Ahmet Yesevi University in Kazakhstan and later headed its strategic research centre, AYSAM.
At the 21st Century Turkey Institute he served as head of the National Security Strategies Centre, as chairman of the board and as deputy head of the institute.
He served as a member of the Turkish parliament for Ankara between 2011 and 2015, elected on the Nationalist Movement Party list, and sat on the National Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Committee.
He has published more than twenty books, received the Osman Turan Culture Research Award in 2003, and writes a newspaper column. He is currently working on his memoirs.
Areas of focus: Management and organisational theory; Political philosophy; Ottoman and Turkish history; The Turkic world
Editorial role: Editorial Board Member
Selected Books
- Türk Kimliği ve Travma (Turkish Identity and Trauma)
- Genç Osman’dan Menderes’e Darbe ve Demokrasi (Coups and Democracy from Osman II to Menderes)
- Örgütlerde Çatışma ve Yabancılaşma Yönetimi (Managing Conflict and Alienation in Organisations)
- Bugünden Yarına Türk Dünyasına Stratejik Bakış (A Strategic View of the Turkic World from Today to Tomorrow)
- Türk Milliyetçiliği (Turkish Nationalism)
- İtirazlar: Yozlaşma ve Yabancılaşmaya Karşı Bakış (Objections: Against Corruption and Alienation)
Selected Public Work and Institutional Profiles
- Yeniçağ Gazetesi — Columnist
- Grand National Assembly of Türkiye — Member of Parliament for Ankara, 2011–2015
- Ahmet Yesevi University, Kazakhstan — Founding Chair, Department of International Relations; Head of AYSAM strategic research centre
- 21st Century Turkey Institute — Member profile