Metin Gürcan

Metin Gürcan is a researcher at the Istanbul Policy Center and a columnist for Al-Monitor. He served in Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Iraq as a Turkish military adviser from 2002 to 2008. Gürcan obtained his PhD in 2016 with a dissertation on changes in the Turkish military over the preceding decade. He has published extensively in Turkish and foreign academic journals, and his book 'What Went Wrong in Afghanistan: Understanding Counterinsurgency in Tribalized, Rural, Muslim Environments' was published in August 2016. He tweets @Metin4020