Turan Gafarlı

Turan Gafarlı, Non-Resident Fellow at the Topchubashov Center, is an expert on post-Soviet Turkic geography and the editor of the book “The Karabakh Gambit: Responsibility for the Future”.

He is a former Advisor to the Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States and holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and Politics from Queen Mary University of London and a Master of Arts in Transnational Studies from University College London.

He has also worked as a researcher in the House of Lords and has interned at the Council of Europe and the United Nations Office in Geneva.

Gafarlı is a member of Chatham House – Royal Institute of International Affairs.