Experience

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  The evaluators’ institute

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2008

  Research assistant
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  Lunds universitet

  Sept 2009 - Dec 2009

  Research fellow

  My article title: "Kurdish Opening: Motivational Factors for the Justice and Development Party". (The article was published by CMES-Lund University Journal)

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  E-democracy center & ege university

  Apr 2011 - Jun 2011

  Web based election research team member

  - Designed election survey- Coded the political parties- Contributed to the designing of the XY scatterplot- Publicized the research tool

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  Osce

  May 2011 - Jun 2011

  Assistant of senior political analyst and gender analyst

  • Assisted two international experts covering different areas of interest simultaneously.• Set up various meetings with politicians, academics, NGO people. Drafted minutes of meetings.• Undertook research as instructed. • Recommended key officials with whom Senior Political Analyst and Senior Gender Analyst could meet. • Joined job trips to cities outside Ankara.• Took part in election monitoring activity in Mersin and Adana on the election day.• Contributed to the final report of the election assessment mission. Show less

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  Grand national assembly of turkey (turkish parliament/tbmm)

  Oct 2011 - Jul 2015

  Political advisor to vice chairman of the republican people's party

  • Prepared written and oral parliamentary questions, parliamentary research motions, and bill proposals. • Wrote and edited booklets on trendy topics such as “Turkey’s Place in the World Indexes” and “Turkey – EU Readmission Agreement”.• Set agenda and prepared talking points for weekly press meetings which were held on Monday mornings as the first press meeting of the week for the CHP.• Prepared and distributed daily news briefs on Turkish Foreign Policy. • Attended think-tank events & academic conferences.• Participated in diplomatic visits in Turkey, took notes for the party archives.• Undertook extensive research on international political developments and Turkish Foreign Policy.• Contributed to diplomatic visits abroad by preparing talking point documents and attended visits.• Drafted and contributed to speeches of the chairperson in international events both in Turkey and abroad. Show less

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  Grand national assembly of turkey (turkish parliament/tbmm)

  Sept 2015 - Jul 2020

  Policy advisor to the republican people's party

  • Responsible for reviewing and analyzing international treaties submitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and writing reports and dissenting opinions for the main opposition party (CHP).• Monitoring and reporting developments in Turkish foreign policy, including such topics as Turkey’s relations with NATO, EU and the Middle East countries.• Assisting and participating in the visits abroad of CHP members of parliament and in the meetings of foreign delegations with the CHP. • Writing briefs and speaking notes on current foreign policy issues and the refugee crisis for press statements of CHP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chairpersons.• Conducting research for censure motions and investigative motions in the Turkish parliament in the field of foreign policy and international developments. • Organizing and assisting international conferences including one on the Arab Spring (2012) and another on the Syrian Crisis (2019), drafting Chairperson’s speeches as well as the drafting of the final declarations in these conferences.• Preparing and distributing daily foreign policy news briefings for the chairperson and executive committee of CHP. • Co-ordinating the work of the intra-party commission on the refugee crisis and edited its conclusions published in a book on the Syrian refugees in Turkey as the Coordinator of the Commission. • Conducting extensive research on Turkish Foreign Policy.• Providing talking points for the international affairs section of the Chairperson’s weekly addresses to the CHP parliamentary group.• Contributing to the draft of legislation proposals by the CHP prepared by the team of CHP parliamentary group advisors.• Penning comprehensive annual reports on foreign policy and the EU affairs of Turkey for the CHP members who participate budget talks at the Planning and Budget Committee.• Providing information and talking points for the party executives participating in media programs or giving interviews. Show less

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  Fao

  Aug 2020 - now

  Communication specialist / project manager