Εvangelos Areteos is a journalist specializing in Turkey and its region and a non-resident research fellow at the Diplomatic Academy of the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.

He was born in Athens in 1971 and he has studied law in France and Islamic Studies in Belgium.

He is the author of a book about the period between the Gezi demonstrations in 2013 and the failed coup attempt in 2016 in Turkey; “From the utopia of Gezi to the coup”, published in 2018. He is the co-author with George Angeletopoulos of a book on social change amongst Turkey’s conservatives; “Turkey: The train of the great modernization”, published in 2019.