Dr. Nur KÖPRÜLÜ is the Head of the Near East University Department of Political Science. She completed her Ph.D. in the Department of International Relations at Middle East Technical University (METU-Ankara). Dr. Köprülü has published articles on the Arab Spring, democratization processes, identity politics, and opposition in journals such as Israel Affairs, Middle East Policy, Digest of Middle East Studies, Turkish Policy Quarterly, and Perceptions. Dr. Köprülü has works relating to authoritarian flexibility and democratization after the Arab Spring in Jordan, Tunisia, and Morocco, women's movements, and Syrian refugees following the Arab uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. Moreover, she has co-authored articles on Cyprus and was published in journals including Southeast European and Black Sea Studies as well as Mediterranean Politics.