Nur Sinem Kourou

Email:

sinem.kourou@yale.edu

Academic Year:

2021-22

Direction:

To Yale

Exchange Partners:

Bogazici University

Project Title:

How AKP Meets with Women: Politics of Party's Women's Branch

Nur Sinem Kourou (Kilic) is a Ph.D. candidate in The Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Bogaziçi University. Her current research focuses on the new rising phenomenon in global politics: populism. More particularly, she brings gender into the populism debate, analyzing right-wing populist parties and their family-mainstreaming approach. Her research is addressing taboo and unsolved topics in Turkish politics. Her MA thesis, entitled The Fragmentation of Alevilik as Exemplified in the case of Gazi Neighborhood: Three Cemevis, Three Free Spaces, was based on a field survey among a minority group in Turkey in a marginal urban setting of Istanbul. She is a full-time research assistant in the department of International Relations at Istanbul Kultur University since 2016.