Kerem Öktem (born 1969)^[1] is a Turkish political scientist and professor at the Università Ca' Foscari in Italy. Between 2014 and 2019 he worked as a professor at the University of Graz. ^[2][3] In a 2013 interview Öktem stated that his field of research was:

The problems of minorities, otherness and exclusion with the idea of reconciliation and recognition, which pose the major questions of the nation-state. Its inherent violence and the extreme forms it can take, war, forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and genocide: all of these have shaped the fate of Turkey, its regions and their people.^[4]

• Öktem, Kerem (2011). Angry Nation: Turkey since 1989. Zed Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78032-116-5.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}