Received Sylff fellowship in 1998.
Current affiliation: The Turkish Center for Asia Pacific Studies
Selçuk Çolakoğlu received his BA from the Department of International Relations at Ankara University, obtained his MA from the Department of International Relations at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, and completed his PhD in the Department of International Relations at Ankara University in 2003.
He got Sylff scholarship druing his PhD study at Ankara University.
He worked as a visiting professor of the Department of Turkish Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) in Seoul, South Korea (1999-2001).
He became an associate professor of international relations in 2008.
He served as the Vice Dean of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in Nazilli (2006-2007), the Chair of Department of International Relations (2008-2012) and the Director of Graduate School of Social Sciences (2011-2012) at Adnan Menderes University in Aydın.
He became a professor of international relations at Yıldırım Beyazıt University in Ankara in 2013.
Dr. Çolakoğlu was a visiting research fellow at the Korea Foundation in Seoul in 2007, The Near East and South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Research at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. in 2013, and the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) in Sejong in 2015.
He was also an advisor for the Center for Strategic Research (SAM) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey (2011-2013).
Recently, he was Vice-President of the International Strategic Research Organization (USAK) (2013-2016).
Dr. Çolakoğlu is currently director of the Turkish Center for Asia-Pacific Studies (APAC) in Ankara, Turkey.
