Mehmet Gurses is an assistant professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. He received his B.A. degree in political science and international relations from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey, and his doctorate from University of North Texas.

His research interests include democracy and democratization, ethnic and religious conflict, post-civil war peace building, post-civil war democratization, and the emergence and evolution of the Islamist parties in the Middle East.

His publications have appeared in International Interactions, Social Science Quarterly, Civil Wars, Defense and Peace Economics, Democratization, Party Politics, International Journal of Human Rights, and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.