Using Protest Event Analysis in the Study of Protest Repression: Protest Bans and Emergency Politics in Turkey

Dear colleagues and students, 

As part of its graduate seminar series, the IR Department invites you to a talk by Dr. Mert Arslanalp and Dr. T. Deniz Erkmen titled “Using Protest Event Analysis in the Study of Protest Repression: Protest Bans and Emergency Politics in Turkey” on Friday, March 10th, 12.30-14.00, at Scola 460.  

Dr. Arslanalp and Dr. Erkmen will talk about their research on emergency politics and authoritarian transformation in Turkey, focusing on protest bans as tools of repression and discussing their effects on the dynamics of the protest arena in Turkey. 

We are looking forward to having you there. 

Assist. Prof. Mert Arslanalp

Dr.Mert Arslanalp is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bogazici University. Before joining Bogazici, he received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and worked as a Visit-ing Professor at Ozyegin University. His research interests include comparative urban politics, contentious and legal politics, and democratization with a regional focus on Latin America and the Middle East. Mert has conducted research on the politics of urban citizenship in Turkey, Argentina, andMexico. He has published in South European Society and Politics, Comparative Sociology, and POMEPS Studies.

Assist. Prof. T. Deniz Erkmen

Dr. Deniz Erkmen is Assistant Professor in Ozyeğin University, Department of International Relations. She got her BA degree in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University, and her Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Boise State University in Boise, between 2009-2011 and as a Lecturer at Ozyegin University in 2012. Her dissertation work concerns itself with transnationalism and cosmopolitan identities. Her teaching and research fields are comparative politics, political sociology, politics of the Middle East, civil society and political participation, transnationalism, skilled migration, globalization and identities.