Ekrem Eddy Güzeldere

Ekrem Eddy Güzeldere is a political analyst and journalist. From October 2024 onwards he is based both in Northeastern Brazil (Paraíba) and Turkey (Istanbul-Izmir). He wrote his PhD on Brazil-Turkey relations and is specialized in both countries. 

After 13 years in Turkey, he was based in Berlin Read morefrom October 2018 until September 2024, where he worked as a Program Manager for the Berghof Foundation.
Before that he worked in Istanbul from 2005 to September 2018, for the German foundation Heinrich Böll and the international think tank ESI (European Stability Inititiative) and as a free-lance journalist, fixer, translator and consultant. He regularly worked with German media (FAZ, ARD radio) and Italian Radio Radicale. From October 2015 until December 2016 he was a non-resident PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg working on Turkey - Brazil relations. The defense took place in Oct. 2017. He has been visiting Brazil regularly since 2011. 
Ekrem completed a master’s degree in political sciences at the Free University of Berlin (2000) and the post-graduate "Euromasters" degree at universities in Bath, Paris, and Madrid (2001). 

Since 2020 he is also a non-resident fellow with the think tank Eliamep in its Turkey program and in the editorial team of the journal Brasilicum, focusing on Brazil and social movements.