Atila Eralp

Atila Eralp is a member of the International Advisory Council of Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initative.  He was a Mercator-IPC Senior Fellow at IPC from 2019 to 2023. He is also an Emeritus Professor in Department of International Relations at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. He has been awarded the Jean Monnet Chair on Politics of European Integration since 2002. He has been the Coordinator of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence since 2007. He was selected as one of the twenty European Success Studies by the European Commission in 2008. His research interests include enlargement process, neighborhood policy, EU’s foreign and security policy, and the Turkey-EU relationship. Professor Eralp has published numerous articles and books on these issues. Eralp has coordinated and implemented various interdisciplinary EU-funded research, training, and communication projects.