Elem EYRİCE TEPECİKLİOĞLU is the head of the Area Studies Department at Social Sciences University of Ankara, TÜRKİYE. She is also an associate professor at the Department of African Studies. She received her PhD in 2013 and conducted her post-doctoral studies at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa between 2014-2015. She has published widely on topics relating to African politics, Turkey-Africa relations and emerging powers in Africa. She is the co-editor of Turkey in Africa: A New Emerging Power? (Routledge, 2021), Turkey’s Pivot to the African Continent: Strategic Crossroads (Routledge, 2024) and Turkey in Africa (Special Issue: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 2024).