Political Scientist (b. 1966, Diyarbakır).
He graduated from Boğaziçi
University, Department of
Political Science and International Relations (1990). He completed his masters
at Bilkent University,
Institute of Social
Sciences with the thesis “Evolution
of Islamic Politics in Turkey
along the NSP-PP Line: Change or Continuity?” (1991). His PhD thesis was at
the same university on the subject “The
Search for an Ethno-Secular Delimitation of Turkish National Identity in the
Kemalist Era (1924-38) with Particular Reference to the Ethnic Conception of
Kemalist Nationalism” in 1998. After working as an academician at Bilkent University for a while, he worked at the
Turkish Grand National Assembly as a political sciene subject specialist and
Deputy Director of the Directorate of the Library and Documentation. He gave
Western Political and Social Thought, History and Comparative Politics courses
at Başkent University. During his career he has
traveled abroad to England, Scotland, Albania,
the United States and Switzerland
to participate in scientific professional seminars.
His translations and articles have
been published in reviews such as İslâmiyat,
Muslim World, Tezkire, Yeni Dergi and Liberal Düşünce. He came first in a competition for social
sciences which the newspaper Milliyet held with his work “Etnik Şiddetin Yönetiminde Kurumsal Bir
Çerçeve olarak Etnik Federalizm: Karşılaştırmalı Bir Yaklaşım” (Ethnic
Federalism as an Institutional Framework for the Management of Ethnic Violence:
A Comparative Approach). He is a member of the Turkish Social Sciences
Association, of Associakion of Legislation and a founder member of the
Intercultural Research and Friendship Foundation.
WORKS:
Ne Mutlu Türküm Diyebilene!” Türk Ulusal Kimliğinin –Etno-Seküler Sınırları
(1919-1938) (How Happy is the One Who is
Able to Say He is a Turk!-Ethno-Secular Boundaries of the Turkish National
Identity (1919-1938) (2001), İktidar
Herşey Değildir (Power Does not Mean Everything, 2004).