Prof. Dr. Asım BALCI
Director / Head of Foreign Languages Department
Asım Balcı graduated from the Department of Public Administration at Ankara University's Faculty of Political Sciences in 1992. He completed his master's degree in public administration at the University of Kentucky in the USA in 1996. After completing his doctorate in public administration at Middle East Technical University, he began working as an assistant professor at Muğla University in 2002. He received his associate professor title in the same field in 2007. After working as an associate professor at Selçuk University, he served as the founding Secretary General of the Ankara Development Agency. In his professional career, he served as an advisor to the Minister at the Ministry of Health, as the Türksat e-Government Communications Coordinator at the Ministry of Transportation, as a Deputy Undersecretary at the Ministry of National Education, as Secretary General at the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, and as Mayor of Altındağ. Since September 2024, he has been working at our university as a professor.
Öğr. Gör. Buket KARA
Deputy Director
Buket Kara received her bachelor's degree in English Language Teaching from Middle East Technical University and her bachelor's degree in International Relations from Anadolu University. She completed her master's degree in English Language Teaching at Başkent University's Institute of Educational Sciences, focusing on critical thinking skills and textbook analysis using Bloom's Taxonomy. She also holds a CELTA certificate from Cambridge University. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in English Language Education at TED University. Buket Kara has been a lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages at Ankara Medipol University since September 2020 and has been serving as Deputy Director since June 2025.
