Furkan Halit Yolcu is a Ph.D. candidate and a research assistant currently working as the head of Security Studies desk at the Middle East Institute, Sakarya University, Turkey. Mr. Yolcu both studied in Spain and Turkey. He has been involved in several research activities along with Ph.D. research. His Ph.D. dissertation is funded by TUBİTAK which is the most prominent research institution of Turkey. He is primarily interested in Middle East, neo-realist international relations theory, civil-military relations, arms and security studies. Apart from the Ph.D. dissertation, Mr. Yolcu’s research activities are focused on the area of media studies. He focuses on the uses of propaganda in Turkish politics. Mr. Yolcu has published various articles both in local and international journals. Mr. Yolcu has also participated in various national and international seminars/conferences around the world.

Isabella Merzagora is full professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Medicine and at the Faculty of Law (State University of Milan).
She teaches in a lot of academic courses and coordinates a Post-Laurea course of Criminology and Criminal Psychology.
She is President of the Italian Society of Criminology.
She is author of more than 280 papers, and 18 monographs.
She has been appointed by some national and international institutions as an expert in the fields of criminology and forensic psychopathology.
She worked as an expert in some Italian jails and Courts.
She makes expertises about defence of insanity for a lots of Italian Courts, also in very well-known cases.
She has been lectures in more than two hundreds conferences.
She leads a project for the criminological treatment of abusing partners.
Currently her main interest is in the fields of genocides and of bioethical topics (medical tragic choices and disabled people treatment).