Halis Yalçin is the Middle East Senior Research Assistant at ACLED. He has been with the organization since 2019 and previously worked as Turkey and Northern Iraq researcher. He holds a BA degree in Political Science from Sabanci University and a MSc degree in European Integration and Development from VUB Brussels. Before joining ACLED, he had professional experience in various political and financial organizations.
November saw election-related tensions in Iraq; tensions between Saudi- and UAE-backed forces in Yemen; and sustained deadly Israeli operations across Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank, and southern Syria.
