Prior to joining TOBB-ETU, Dr. Ismayil worked as the Director of Turkey Research Center at Baku Slavian University between the years 2002 and 2008. In addition to that, Toğrul Ismayil worked as the chief editor of the national newspaper “Cumhuriyet” published in Azerbaijan from 1999 to 2003. Dr. Ismayil received his Ph.D from the Department of Economics at İstanbul University in 2006 and Department of History at Moscow State University in 1993. Dr. Ismayil has many articles and books translated into several languages and published in different countries.