Bogazici University

Faculty Member, Political Science and International Relations

Prof. Dr.

Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

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Dr. Hakan Yılmaz is Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Bogazici University, Istanbul.  He's got his BA degree at the Economics Department of Bogazici University (1987).  He received his M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (1996) degrees at the Political Science Department of Columbia University in New York City.  He has two sets of interests, ACADEMIC and ARTISTIC.  ACADEMICALLY, he is interested in political ideologies and political culture in post-war Turkey; culture and identity dimensions of European integration and EU-Turkish Relations; and external-internal linkages in the processes of democratization.  He has conducted research projects on Euroskepticism in Turkey (2004); conservatism in Turkey (2006); the middle classes in Turkey (2007); the knowledge and image of Turkey, as well as the level of support for Turkey's EU membership, in five EU member states (UK, Germany, France, Spain, Poland) (2009); the processes of othering and discrimination in Turkey (2010).  As far as his interest in ARTS is concerned, He is writing poetry and song lyrics, he is an active musician, and he was a founder and vocalist of "Ezginin Günlüğü", a top-ranking folk-pop group of Turkey since the early 1980s.  He performed in three albums of Ezginin Günlüğü: Sabah Türküsü (The Morning Tune), Alagözlü Yar (the Clear-Eyed Beloved), and Doğu Türküleri (Songs from the East).  He is working on a new personal album, which he is planning to release in 2011.

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