Gareth Jenkins is a non-resident senior fellow at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center, a transatlantic research and policy initiative between the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, and the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm. He has been based in Istanbul since 1989, working as journalist, author and analyst; his special fields of interest are civil-military relations, terrorism and security issues, energy and political Islam

Gareth Jenkins’s publications include Context and Circumstance: The Turkish Military and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2001); Turkey and Northern Iraq: An Overview (Jamestown Foundation, February 2008); Political Islam in Turkey: Running West, Heading East? (Palgrave, 2008); and Between Fact and Fantasy: Turkey’s Ergenekon Investigation (Silk Road Paper, August 2009)