Furkan Senay received his BA in Political Science and European Studies and continued his MA in European Studies at Istanbul Bilgi University. Senay has been in Washington DC and Cairo offices of SETA Foundation to study on regional politics. He joined projects at SOAS (University of London) and at the Institute for Central Eastern Europe and the Balkans (University of Bologna). Senay joined in various EU funded projects in different European countries. He also has been in the Middle East countries in 2011 and 2012 to research on the "Arab Spring". Currently, he is working as a Research Assistant in the Foreign Policy department at SETA.