INVITED TALKS & LECTURES

2025. ‘Populism and Territoriality,’ IdeoPop Traning Module, University of Freiburg,  November 11.

2023. ‘The Electoral Politics of Erdoğanism,’ MECAM, Tunis, May 23.

2022. ‘After Istanbul: Women’s Rights and Human Rights in Turkey,’ GIGA Talk, GIGA Berlin, May 11.                                 

2021. ‘The New Turkey in Arms: Discerning Patterns in Civil-Military Relations,’  TürkeiEuropaZentrum, The University of Hamburg, January 26.

2021. ‘Populism and Dislocation in Turkish Foreign Policy,’  InIIS Colloquium, The University of Bremen, June 2.

2019. ‘Turkey’s Political Futures: Domestic and Regional Dynamics,’  GIGA Talk, GIGA Berlin, February 21.

2019. ‘Turkey in Turmoil: A Country’s Populist Authoritarian Turn,’ GIGA Forum, GIGA Hamburg, February 20.

2019. ‘Dislocation as the Constitutive Element of AKP Populism,’ Kolloquium Türkeistudien, University of Duisburg Essen, January 22.

2017. ‘Coup Narratives in Turkey, ‘  The Middle East and Muslim World Seminars, Oslo University, March 24.

2016. ‘Street Arts of Resistance: Reflections on Tahrir and Gezi,’  Department of Politics and IR Seminar Series, Aberdeen University, November 2.

2016. ‘From Revival to Rivalry: Islam, Politics, and the Military in Turkey,’  Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, October 4.

2015. ‘Seminar on Academic Writing,’ Bilkent University, Ankara, October 20.

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

2025. ‘Retired Military in Politics: Informal Civil-Military Relations,’  Fifth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies, Mainz, September 20.

2023. ‘Turkey’s Political System: Between Democracy and Authoritarianism,’  Vortragsreihe – 100 Jahre Republik Türkei: Eine aktuelle Bilanz, Uni Hamburg, June 14.

2022. ‘Same Path, Different Routes: Legitimation of Repression in Turkey and Egypt,’ 100. Orientalistentag, Berlin, September 13.

2021. ‘Collective Identity Change Under Exogeneous Shocks,’  Workshop on Turkey’s Diaspora Governance Policies, London Metropolitan University, May 21.

 2020. ‘The Militarization and Para-militarization in Turkey,’ GIGA Forum, A New Wave of Militarization?, Hamburg, November 18.

2019. ‘Transnational Solidarity as Survival:  The Re-making of Gülenist Diaspora,’ CrossArea Jahrestagung, Hamburg, November  7-11.

2019. ‘The First Friday Turkish Sermons: A Genealogy of Official Islam in Turkey,’ 26th DAVO/DMG Congress, Hamburg, October  3-5.

2018. ‘Discourse and Practice in Erdogan’s Foreign Policy,’  DVPW Conference, 27th National Convention, Frankfurt, September  25-28.

2018. ‘The Chronopolitics of Turkish Populism,’ Third European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies, Bamberg, September 19-21.

2018. ‘The Temporal Construction of the Nation in New Populisms,’  ECPR General Conference, Hamburg, August  22-25.