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Introduction
I am a research associate at the Medical School OWL and PhD candidate at Bielefeld University, Germany. My dissertation explores the rise of the need for long-term care in a global context and the agenda-setting process in this policy area in Turkey.
Additional affiliations
October 2020 - September 2023
Position
- Research Associate
Description
- Research associate in the Research Training Group "World politics: The emergence of political arenas and modes of observation in world society".
October 2020 - present
June 2022 - September 2022
Position
- Visiting Researcher
Description
- The Collaborative Research Centre 1342: Global Dynamics of Social Policy in the Project A07 "Global Dynamics of Long-term Care Policies".
Education
October 2015 - January 2019
October 2014 - February 2015
September 2011 - August 2015
Publications
Publications (5)
Purpose-Over the last four decades, Turkey has built an elaborate social assistance regime, which provides extensive coverage of the poor but lacks some of the key characteristics of European minimum income protection systems. The purpose of this paper is to explore what ideational roots underlie the regime and how these ideas and paradigms histori...
Report on the Long-term Care System in Turkey as part of the CRC 1342 Social Policy Country Briefs
The "challenges" discourse, usually linked to "opportunities", has become increasingly widespread, and transcended national boundaries. In this context, the construction of the world population ageing as a global challenge accompanied by opportunities, poses an intriguing case to study from a critical perspective. Since the mid-1990s, discussions b...
Introduced in 2012, the coverage of supplementary voluntary private health insurance (or supplementary private insurance) in Turkey has rapidly increased over the last years. Since costs for voluntary private health insurance (VPHI), which is offered by private companies without the involvement of the state, have been increasing, supplementary VPHI...
This thesis deals with context-bound social positioning of Turkish people who immigrated to Germany in the 2000s. Even though Turkish migrant's integration into Germany has been highly discussed by politicians and academics for decades, these individuals' experiences and interpretations have not been widely studied. Instead, their ability to confor...
