Kemal Inat is a professor of Turkish Foreign Policy and Middle East Politics in the Department of International Relations at Sakarya University.
Inat is the editor and the main contributor of "Ortadoğu Yıllığı" (The Middle East Yearbook) published since 2005.
He is also the editor of Türk Dış Politikası Yıllığı (Turkish Foreign Policy Annual) published since 2009 by SETA Publication.
He currently teaches as a professor on Middle East politics, Turkish foreign policy and international conflicts.
[2] Inat is known as a public and academic supporter of an EU-like supranational organization for the Middle East led by Turkey and Iran.
For Inat, the existing volume of trade between the two countries, which was 16 billion dollars in 2011, is not enough to mention an economic interdependence between Iran and Turkey.
Dünya Çatışmaları, 2 Volumes, (with Burhanettin Duran and Muhittin Ataman) (Ankara: Nobel Yayınları, 2010) (in Turkish) 2.