I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. I am also a 2024-25 Spotlight Scholar for the American Political Science Association Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Related Group and a Graduate Fellow for the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship at Johns Hopkins University.

My research interests include critical security studies and counterinsurgency, urban politics, race and ethnicity, and critical methodologies. I use ethnographic methods to explore spatialities of everyday warfare against racialized and ethnicized populations with a regional focus on the Middle East and Kurdish politics. Previously, I received my BA and MA degrees in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bogazici University, Turkey. In addition, I was a Visiting Researcher as a part of the International Fox Fellowship at Yale University for 2018-2019.