{"id":1407,"date":"2022-11-29T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T10:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pols.bilkent.edu.tr\/?page_id=1407"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:00:33","slug":"ph-d-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pols.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/ph-d-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Ph.D. Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bat\u0131kan Bulut<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Areas:<\/strong> Comparative Politics, Turkish Politics, Migration and Diaspora<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bat\u0131kan Bulut’s dissertation examines the emergence, guiding principles, and core elements of Turkey’s diaspora regime and its institutional implications. His research interests include citizenship policy, civil society, nationalism, religion and society within the Turkish context, and migration studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-mail: <\/strong>batikan.bulut@bilkent.edu.tr <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisor: <\/strong>Assoc. Prof. Meral U\u011fur-\u00c7\u0131nar<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Can \u00c7elik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Areas:<\/strong> Comparative Politics, Social and Cultural Theory, Militarism & Nationalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Summary:<\/strong> Can \u00c7elik’s dissertation investigates the everyday manifestations of militarization in Turkey, with a special focus on how militarized masculinities are constructed and deconstructed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-mail:<\/strong> can.celik@bilkent.edu.tr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisor:<\/strong> Dr Ba\u015fak \u0130nce<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Didem \u0130\u015f\u00e7i Kuru<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Areas: <\/strong>Comparative Politics, Turkish Politics, Party Politics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Summary: <\/strong>Didem \u0130\u015f\u00e7i Kuru’s dissertation explores how opposition parties respond to democratic backsliding, emphasizing the strategies they adopt to remain competitive. It analyzes party\u2013voter linkages and the formation of electoral alliances as key mechanisms of opposition resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-mail: <\/strong>didem.isci@bilkent.edu.tr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisor: <\/strong>Asst. Prof. Kerem Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u015eule Ta\u015f\u00e7\u0131\u011flu \u00d6rs<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Areas:<\/strong> Turkish Politics, Comparative Politics, Gender and Politics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Summary:<\/strong> \u015eule Ta\u015f\u00e7\u0131\u011flu \u00d6rs’s Ph.D. dissertation analyzes how a diverse range of gender\u2011based civil society organizations in Turkey balance transnational human\u2011rights principles with local cultural and political contexts. It examines how these organizations influence legal interpretations, affect state practices, and potentially foster inclusionary policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-mail: <\/strong>sule.tascioglu@bilkent.edu.tr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisor:<\/strong> Assoc. Prof. Meral U\u011fur \u00c7\u0131nar<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Eray \u015eim\u015fek<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Areas:<\/strong> Political theory, Turkish politics, politics of globalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Summary: <\/strong>Eray \u015eim\u015fek’s dissertation research investigates the rise of multistakeholder language in global governance. Focusing on health, finance, and climate governance between the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 COVID\u201119 pandemic, he examines how multistakeholderism has emerged as a legitimizing discourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email:<\/strong> eray.simsek@bilkent.edu.tr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisor:<\/strong> Assoc. Prof. John James Alexander<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Egesu Sayar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Areas<\/strong>: Comparative Politics, Social and Cultural Theory, Collective Memory<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Summary: <\/strong>Egesu Sayar studies protest narratives of contemporary student movements in Turkey. By analyzing repertoires of contention, collective\u2011memory processes, and claim\u2011making strategies, her research focuses on how these movements frame demands for democratic participation and construct collective identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-mail:<\/strong> egesu.sayar@bilkent.edu.tr
Supervisor:<\/strong> Asst. Prof. Meral U\u011fur \u00c7\u0131nar<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hande Tuhanio\u011flu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Areas: <\/strong>Political Theory, Social and Cultural Studies, Work and Society <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Summary: <\/strong>Hande Tuhanio\u011flu’s dissertation explores the reception of identity politics in Turkey from 1980 to 2000, emphasizing the mediating role of translation in reshaping the post\u20111980 intellectual landscape. Using critical discourse analysis, archival research, and oral history, she examines how translated texts in political theory, philosophy, literary criticism, and social criticism influenced Turkey’s political vocabulary and conceptual frameworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-mail: <\/strong>hande.tuhanioglu@bilkent.edu.tr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisor: <\/strong>Assoc. Prof. \u0130hsan \u0130lker Ayt\u00fcrk<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u0130smail Yaz\u0131c\u0131<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Areas: <\/strong>Turkish Politics, Political Theory, Contemporary Islamic Political Thought<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Summary: <\/strong>\u0130smail Yaz\u0131c\u0131’s dissertation investigates the historical trajectory of the Presidency of Religious Affairs in Turkey and its multifaceted engagements with Islamic actors during the Cold War period. It provides a critical account of the institutionalization of state-sanctioned Islam through the policies of the Presidency of Religious Affairs, while analyzing how various Islamic actors interacted with the official administration of religion in Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-mail:<\/strong> ismail.yazici@bilkent.edu.tr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisor: <\/strong>Assoc. Prof. \u0130hsan \u0130lker Ayt\u00fcrk<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cansu Yetimo\u011flu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Areas<\/strong>: Turkish Politics, Comparative Politics, Politics and Gender<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Summary:<\/strong> Cansu Yetimo\u011flu’s dissertation offers a critical analysis of how women’s labor and employment are discursively constructed in the Turkish Parliament. Situated at the intersection of feminist political economy and representation theory, her research examines how legislative debates frame women’s economic participation within broader ideological and institutional struggles over gender and welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-mail<\/strong>: cansu.yetimoglu@bilkent.edu.tr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisor:<\/strong> Asst. Prof. Esra \u0130\u015fsever-Ekinci<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Didem Y\u0131lmaz<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Areas:<\/strong> Social and Cultural Studies, Political Theory, Technologies of the Self<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Summary : <\/strong>Didem Y\u0131lmaz’s dissertation investigates the construction of national identities through representations of the gendered and racialized body in Cold War\u2013era German visual art, with a particular emphasis on photographic practices. Grounded in political anthropology, her work examines how postwar German self\u2011perception was shaped in both the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-mail: <\/strong>didem.yilmaz@bilkent.edu.tr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisor: <\/strong>Assistant Professor Ba\u015fak \u0130nce<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bat\u0131kan Bulut Research Areas: Comparative Politics, Turkish Politics, Migration and Diaspora Bat\u0131kan Bulut’s dissertation examines the emergence, guiding principles, and core elements of Turkey’s diaspora regime and its institutional implications. His research interests include citizenship policy, civil society, nationalism, religion and society within the Turkish context, and migration studies. E-mail: batikan.bulut@bilkent.edu.tr  [\u2026] <\/p>\n

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