Ömer Özkizilcik

Ömer Özkizilcik is an Ankara-based analyst of Turkish foreign policy, counterterrorism and military affairs. A leading expert on the Syrian civil war, Özkizilcik has written extensively on the non-state armed groups and the state actors involved in the conflict. Özkizilcik works as the Turkish Research Director on Syria at the Omran Center for Strategic Studies and as a non-residential fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Syria Project.