Blaise Misztal is a fellow at Hudson Institute, one of the leading think tanks in Washington, D.C. His research programme focuses on the Middle East, Europe, and strategic competition.

Mitszal is a former director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s national security program, a role in which he greatly contributed to U.S.-Turkey relations and issues around it through panels and papers, as he continues to do at the Hudson Institute. Misztal discussed the results of Sunday's historic defeat with Ahval's Ilhan Tanir.