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Dr Ziya Meral is a researcher, advisor and programmes director specialising on global trends shaping defence and security, politics and foreign policies of Turkey and Middle East and the thematic issues surrounding interaction of religion with global affairs. He is a Senior Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute with its International Security Studies programme, a Visiting Fellow at the Royal Navy’s Strategic Studies Centre and a Senior Associate Fellow of the European Leadership Network. He is also co-founder and an associate of the Climate Change and (In)Security Project, a joint initiative of the UK Army and the University of Oxford, exploring the impact of climate change on defence and security.