Emrah Atar is a PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant at the Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester. He holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Emrah is an Interview Editor of the Political Reflection Magazine. His focus topics and research interests are politics, governance, migration, policy development and management.
A new year usually is welcomed as a time of joy and opimism, however 2020 seems to have bucked that trend. 2020 began with the United States announcing that Qassem Suleimani,…