Having completed his BA and MA in Sociology at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Hatem Ete spent one year (2007-2008) at Columbia University on a scholarship to pursue further research in his field of area. He received his PhD. Degree on sociology upon completion of his doctoral thesis titled Democracy and Tutelary Regime in Turkey: The Political and Sociological Roots of Tutelage in Single-Party Era from METU. He has widely published on these issues in various journals and newspapers. He has been working as the coordinator of political research at SETA Foundation.