Dr Sinem Bal
Turkey/CATS CATS Fellow
Areas of Expertise
- European Union
- Human rights
- Migration
Refugee Studies, Gender and Politics, EU-Turkey Relations, Civil Society in Turkey, Political Economy
Short Curriculum Vitae
seit 09/2025 Fellow at the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS), SWP Berlin
01/2025-06/2025: Part-time Senior Lecturer at İzmir University of Economics, İzmir (Turkey)
01/2023-12/2024: Research Fellow at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul (Turkey)
01/2022-12/2023: Part-time Senior Lecturer at Işık University, Şile (Turkey)
07/2019-12/2021: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)
09/2015-06/2019: Lecturer at Piri Reis University, Istanbul (Turkey)
01/2015-09/2015: Full-time TÜBİTAK Researcher at University of Tübingen (Germany)
SWP Publications
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Turkey’s “Year of the Family” 2025
Authoritarian Trends and Political Economy of Anti-Gender Politics
SWP Comment 2026/C 14, 30.03.2026, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2026C14
