Projects
- Project Partner, Erasmus + Project RENPET (Reconceptualising European Power in an Era of Turmoil: Contestation, Relevance and Sustainability) (2021-2024) Project website: https://www.renpet.eu/
- Project Partner, Horizon 2020 Project EU-IDEA: EU Integration and Differentiation for Effectiveness and Accountability (2018-2021) Project website: https://euidea.eu/
- Project Partner, Horizon 2020 Project FEUTURE: Future of EU-Turkey Relations (2016-2019) Project website: http://www.feuture.eu/
- Project Partner, Erasmus + Project VIADUCT (Enhancing Visibility of the Academic Dialogue on EU-Turkey Cooperation) (2017-2020) Project website: https://www.viaduct.uni-koeln.de/
- Member of the Carnegie Rising Democracies Research Network (September 2013-present)
- Project website: http://carnegieendowment.org/specialprojects/RisingDemocraciesNetwork
- Joint coordinator of Global Turkey in Europe, Istanbul Policy Centre (IPC) of Sabanci University and Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) (2012-present). Project website: http://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/project/global-turkey-in-europe-serisi/?lang=en
- Rapporteur for TUSIAD’s (Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association) Roundtable Series on the New Constitution, March 2011. Report website: https://tusiad.org/en/reports/item/5211-five-fundamental-dimensions-of-the-new-constitution-process
- Coordinator of INTERACT: EU, France, Turkey University Dialogue (Funded by EU-Turkey Civil Society Dialogue Universities Grant Program) (June 2008-December 2009)
- Researcher and author in Evaluating International Influences on Democratic Development, Stanford University Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) (2007-2009) Program website: https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/research/program_on_evaluating_international_influences_on_democratic_development
- Researcher and author in Challenges to Democratization: Trends and Responses in the European Neighbourhood, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and La Fundacion para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Dialogo Exterior (FRIDE) (2008-2009). Report website: http://aei.pitt.edu/32640/1/63._Democracy’s_Plight_in_the_European_Neighborhood.pdf
- Researcher and author in The Dynamics of Political Islam and EU Foreign Policy in the Mediterranean, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), La Fundacion para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Dialogo Exterior (FRIDE), Fundacion Tres Culturas (2008-2009). Report website: https://www.ceps.eu/system/files/1561.pdf
- Researcher and author in European Transformation of Modern Turkey, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and the Economics and Foreign Policy Forum (EFPF) (2003-2004) Report website: https://www.ceps.eu/publications/european-transformation-modern-turke