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Experience

  • 2022–present
    Postdoctoral research fellow, KU Leuven
  • 2025–present
    Research associate, Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub
  • 2023–2025
    Lecturer, Queen Margaret University

Education

  • 2021 
    Coventry University, PhD/Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations
  • 2015 
    Sabancı University, MA/Conflict Analysis and Resolution
  • 2013 
    Boğaziçi University, BA/Psychology

Publications

  • 2024
    Beyond Survival: Transformative Impacts of Integrating Mental Health and Livelihood Support in Conflict Zones, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development
  • 2024
    The role of the pro-Kurdish DEM party in the 2024 local elections: Navigating new political waters, Geopolitica
  • 2024
    Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Needs Assessment in West Ninewa (Baaj, Qairawan, Sinjar and Sinuni), International Organization for Migration
  • 2023
    Xoybûn’dan Demokratik Özerkliğe: Türkiye’nin Batı Kürdistan Siyaseti [From Khoybun to Democratic Autonomy: Turkey’s Policy towards Western Kurdistan], Dipnot
  • 2023
    Kürt Meselesi ve Barış: Beklenti, Tutum ve Algılar [Kurdish Issue and Peace: Expectations, Attitudes, and Perceptions], Spectrum House
  • 2023
    Examining the impact of IOM's mental health and psychosocial support services on IDPs in Salah al-Din, International Organization for Migration
  • 2023
    Perceived changes in psychosocial well-being among returning IDPs and host communities: Findings from IOM Iraq's MHPSS Programme in Salah Al-Din Governorate, International Organization for Migration
  • 2023
    The Other of the Other: Syrian Refugees from the Perspective of Kurdish Minority in Turkey, Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2023
    Locals’ support for asylum seekers’ integration and rights: Exploring a normative model of support for Syrians in Turkey, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
  • 2023
    Locals’ support for asylum seekers’ integration and rights: Exploring a normative model of support for Syrians in Turkey, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
  • 2022
    Assessment of perceptions of climate change and its causes and impacts on mental health and psychosocial wellbeing among a group of internally displaced persons in Iraq, Intervention
  • 2022
    Intra-Kurdish Interactions, Democratic Autonomy, and Peacebuilding in Rojava and Bakur, Kurdish Peace Institute
  • 2022
    Writing a story that will never end: Policy recommendations for Syrian asylum seekers and local community, Spectrum House
  • 2022
    How have Syrians been instrumentalized in Turkey's domestic politics and international relations, Nomiki Bibliothiki
  • 2022
    Mental Health and Psychosocial Needs Assessment in Basra. Baghdad: International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Migration
  • 2019
    A human-security approach to the Syrian “refugee crisis” in Turkey: assessing third-party efforts, Elgar
  • 2019
    Methodological Approaches in Kurdish Studies Theoretical and Practical Insights from the Field, Lexington Books
  • 2019
    Reflections on Research: Challenges and Opportunities, Lexington Books
  • 2019
    I/NGOs’ assistance to Syrian refugees in Turkey: Opportunities and challenges, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies
  • 2018
    Book Review: Integration of immigrants and the theory of recognition: “just integration”, by Gulay Ugur Goksel, Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • 2018
    Can identification as Muslim increase support for reconciliation? The case of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, International Journal of Intercultural Relations
  • 2018
    Book Review: Integration of immigrants and the theory of recognition: "just integration" by Gulay Ugur Goksel, Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • 2017
    Radikal Demokrasi ve Rojava Demokratik Özerklik Deneyimi [Radical Democracy and the Experience of Rojava Democratic Autonomy], Demokratik Modernite
  • 2017
    Peacebuilding in a Conflict Setting: Peace and Reconciliation Committees in De Facto Rojava Autonomy in Syria, Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
  • 2016
    Rojava: Bir Demokratik Özerklik Deneyimi [Rojava: An Experience of Democratic Autonomy], İletişim Yayınları
  • 2016
    Why does identity matter? A two-path model to intergroup forgiveness via in-group bias and outgroup blame, Psychological Research
  • 2015
    Li Rojavayê Kurdistanê Perwerdehiya bi Zimanê Kurdî û Rêveberiya Sêzimanî [Education in Kurdish Language and Trilingual Administration in Rojava (Western) Kurdistan], Zend
  • 2014
    The Kurdish Peace Process and Presidential Elections in Turkey, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

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