Dr. Ebru Turhan

Ebru Turhan is associate professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Turkish-German University (TDU), Istanbul. She also serves as a senior research fellow at the Institute for European Politics (IEP) in Berlin and at the Center for Turkey and European Union Studies (CETEUS) of the University of Cologne. Turhan was the academic coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module ‘INSITER-Inside the Turkey-EU Relations’ (2016-2019), co-financed by the European Commission. Before joining the Turkish-German University in September 2015, she was a Mercator-IPC fellow and post-doctoral researcher at the Istanbul Policy Center (IPC) of the Sabancı University and a senior analyst at the Berlin representation of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD). Turhan holds an MA in Contemporary European Studies from the University of Bath, UK and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Cologne, Germany. Her current research interests include EU-Turkey relations, external differentiation, German-Turkish relations, degendering and decolonizing knowledge, and research synthesis techniques. She is the recipient of the 2020 Teaching Excellence Award of the VIADUCT Jean Monnet Network and the co-editor of the recently published open access edited volume EU-Turkey Relations: Theories, Institutions, and Policies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-70890-0). 

List of publications can be found here.

Publikationen

Turhan’s academic work has been published by numerous journals and publishers including Nomos, Routledge, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, CESifo Forum, Südosteuropa Mitteilungen and Europe’s World. Her commentaries and interviews have appeared in media outlets such as ZDF, Hürriyet Daily News, New Europe, Atlantic Community, Al Jazeera, the Arab Weekly, Radio France and Tagesspiegel.