Suat Kınıklıoğlu

He graduated from the Turkish Air Force Academy (Electronics) in 1986 and from Carleton University’s Political Science Department with High Honours in 1994.

Kınıklıoğlu specializes in Turkish domestic and foreign policy, Turkish-Russian relations and Turkey’s strategic identity.

[citation needed] Kınıklıoğlu has worked as communications squadron commander in the Turkish Air Force, columnist in Turkish Daily News, editor-in-chief of the foreign policy journal Insight Turkey, executive director of the German Marshall Fund of the US Ankara office and as columnist at Radikal Daily.

In 2007, he wrote a piece to the International Herald Tribune titled “Getting Turkey Right” and caught the attention of then-foreign minister now President Abdullah Gül.

[citation needed] In 2014 Kınıklıoğlu managed the Ankara mayoral election campaign of Mansur Yavaş who ran on a Republican People's Party (CHP) ticket.