Murat Iplikci, Ph.D., earned his BA (2012) from Bilkent University, Department of Industrial Engineering, and his master’s degrees from Bilkent University (2015) and Illinois State University (ISU) (2019) Department of History. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Department of History at Bilkent University in December 2022. His research interests are in the investments of American multinational companies in Turkey within the framework of diplomatic, commercial, and business relations between Turkey and the USA. He previously worked as a doctoral researcher at a TUBITAK project entitled ‘The Globalization of the Atom: Nuclear Trade and the Spread of Atomic Weapons.’ He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies at Columbia University.