Dr. Mesut Uyar is professor of international relations at the Antalya Bilim University, Turkey. Dr. Uyar is a retired Turkish Army colonel and former associate professor from the University of New South Wales, Australia and the Turkish Military Academy. He is the author or co-author of The Ottoman Army and the First World War (2021); The Phaseline Attila: The Amphibious Campaign for Cyprus, 1974 (2020); The Ottoman Defense Against the Anzac Landing 25 April 1915 (2015); A Military History of the Ottomans: From Osman to Atatürk (2009) and numerous articles and book chapters.