Congress: Our Center (GSGP) Participated in the 8th Middle East Congress on Politics and Society

We participated as the Ibn Haldun University Center for Gulf Studies and Global Policy in the 8th Middle East Congress on Politics and Society, organized by the Sakarya University Middle East Institute (ORMER).

On the first day of the congress, held on October 8–9, 2026, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yetim analyzed the current political landscape of the Gulf in his presentation titled "The Gulf Beyond the Traditional: Insecurity, Multipolarity, and Polarization" during the session "Security Crisis in the Gulf After a US/Israel–Iran War," moderated by Prof. Dr. İsmail Numan Telci. Dr. Gökhan Ereli examined the dynamics of the new regional alliance established among Ankara, Riyadh, and Islamabad in his presentation, "The Mecca Alliance as a Complementary Security Initiative." Finally, Dr. Ömer Behram Özdemir discussed the impact of Iran's strategy of utilizing proxy forces on the transformation of Gulf security since 2003 in his presentation titled "The New Geopolitics of Gulf Security: From Iran to Proxy Actors, and from Proxy Actors to Regional War."

On the second day of the congress, in a session held online and moderated by Dr. Gökhan Ereli, titled "WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST: REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS AND THE FUTURE OF ALLIANCES," our research assistant Cemaleddin Aslan presented his paper titled "Changing Power Balances, Unchanging Strategies? The AI Alliances of the UAE and Saudi Arabia." Furthermore, Mohammad Mohsen Mahdi Zadeh Naeini, Ahmed Abdul Rehman, and Faozi Mohammed Hasan Algoidi—participants in the International Summer School on Gulf Studies organized by our center in recent months—represented our center at the session in question with their valuable presentations.