Sinan Ciddi is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and director of the Turkey program. He has more than two decades of research experience focused on Turkish domestic politics and foreign policy. Sinan is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Prior to joining FDD, Sinan served as an associate professor of national security studies at Marine Corps University’s Command and Staff College. He is the author of Kemalism in Turkish Politics: The Republican People’s Party: Secularism and Nationalism (Routledge, January 2009). He obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2007 in the field of political science.