Turan Research Center

Joseph Epstein is the Director of the Turan Research Center, a senior fellow at the Yorktown Institute and a research fellow at the Post-Soviet Conflicts Research Program at Bar Ilan University’s Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. He also sits on the advisory board of the Alekain Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to providing education to women and girls in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. He specializes in Eurasia and the Middle East and his work has been featured in various outlets such as Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, the Hill, the Atlantic Council, Novaya Gazeta, RFE/RL, Foreign Policy and others. From 2017 to 2019, he served as a Lone Soldier in the Israeli Border Police. A graduate of Columbia University, where he studied Political Science and Soviet Studies, Joseph is fluent in Russian and Hebrew.