CV
Academic record
Selected education, research experience and academic activity.
Education & academic visits
Current
Middle East Technical University
PhD Candidate
Institute of Social Sciences
Bilkent University
Master of Arts in International Relations
Bilkent University
Bachelor of Arts in International Relations
Sciences Po
PhD visiting participant
Department of Political Science
Media and politics; data gathering and analysis.
Academic & research experience
Research
Middle East Technical University
Doctoral research
Institute of Social Sciences
Analysis of post-Arab Spring Middle Eastern civil wars; open-source research on internal and external developments in the Syrian Civil War; construction of datasets for civil war studies.
Storyzy
Visiting Researcher
Department of Media Research
Research using a media database to identify misinformation. Tracked and categorised articles, sites and posts through open-source methods, and contributed to a detection dataset for students and researchers.
Bilkent University
Research Assistant
Department of International Relations
Research support on game theory, foreign policy analysis and social science methods; teaching assistance and data processing.
Bilkent University
Department Assistant
Department of International Relations
Departmental academic support, examination supervision and interactive learning projects for first-year students.
Selected publications
Full publication archiveA Rational Theoretic Analysis of the Iran-Iraq War
Journal of Middle East Perspectives · 2 (2) · pp. 20-42
The New Wars Approach and the Post-Cold War Conflicts of the Middle East
Journal of Middle East Perspectives · 1 (1) · pp. 25-44
The post-Arab Spring Balancing Politics of the Middle East
58th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Baltimore Maryland
Selected academic activity
University College London
Political Turbulence PhD Workshop
Institute for Advanced Studies · London
Presented “Civil War Diplomacy: The Cases of Astana and Geneva”.
International Studies Association
58th Annual Convention
Baltimore
Panel: The Arab Spring and Its Aftermath: Challenges and Prospects.
International Political Science Association
24th World Congress
Poznan
Panel: The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and Syria: A Comparative Analysis.
Research practice & languages
Sources & analysis
- Research methods
- Open-source research (OSINT), data gathering and categorisation, large-N analysis and statistical tools.
- Dataset work
- Syrian Civil War diplomacy, including peace, ceasefire, de-escalation and other negotiation processes.
Tools & languages
- Statistical software
- Experience with R, RStudio and Jamovi.
- Languages
- Turkish (native); English (full working proficiency).
Historical entries, methods and language descriptions follow the November 2023 CV.