Prof Levent Koker graduated from Ankara University Law School. He received a master's degree in political science from Ankara University. After having completed his doctoral dissertation, he became an assistant professor of politics in Gazi University where, he became an associate professor in political theory. He spent the 1984-85 academic year in Mansfield College in Oxford, England, and 1994-95 at the Center of International Studies at Princeton University as British Council and Fulbright fellows respectively. In addition to Gazi and Ankara universities, he has taught also in METU, Bilkent and Atilim universities in Ankara, Abant Izzet Baysal University in Bolu, and the Near East University in Cyprus. He is currently a member of the Faculty of Law in Atilum University. He has published many books, all in Turkish, including Modernization, Kemalism and Democracy (2009), Two Different Conceptions of Politics (2008), and Democracy, Critique and Turkey (2008). He has written articles in English for academic journals including Political Theory, The Annals of the AAPSS and Constellations.