Dr. Doğuş Sönmez has been working as a research assistant in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Kadir Has University since 2022. Sönmez, who completed his doctorate in International Relations at Galatasaray University in July 2025, received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Marmara University. His academic areas of expertise include Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis, International Relations Theories, Russian Foreign Policy, and Turkey-Russia-Iran relations. Sönmez served as a research assistant at Istanbul Arel University from 2016 to 2022.