#SelectedProjects
Advancing Social Research and Community Engagement
Discover a range of projects highlighting my interdisciplinary research experience and reflecting my commitment to exploring social causes, advocating for human rights, and fostering community-driven initiatives across diverse contexts.
Documenting Turkey’s Withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention and Discussing This Decision’s Potential for EU Member States
The project culminated in a paper titled Law No. 6284 in Practice After Withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention and a video interview series on YouTube, Geography is not Destiny: The Istanbul Convention Case of Turkey from First Signatory to First Withdrawal, exploring the broader implications of this decision on transnational gender-based policies across Europe.
Expertise on the comprehensive implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Germany from an intersectional perspective
Between May 2019 and September 2022, I worked as a researcher at DaMigra (Dachverband der Migrantinnen e.V.) in Berlin on racism and (hetero-)sexist gender-based violence. My expertise at DaMigra lies in the intersectional analysis of a comprehensive implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Germany. I’m the co-author of the DaMigra-GREVIO-Shadow Report and Bündnis-Istanbul-Konvention Alternative Bericht, as well as numerous political papers demanding equal human rights for all in all areas of life and short studies revealing the structural and institutional anti-feminist and racist discrimination and violence. Consequently, I organized local, regional, national, and international conferences, seminars, and publications, in addition to conducting workshops, reading groups, and joining podium discussions.
Migrant Women’s Memory Box
In 2014, based upon their socio-political activities in Frankfurt am Main, the Bundesverband der Migrantinnen e.V.-GKB (Federal German Migrant Women’s Association) was invited to the Bibliothek der Generationen (Library of Generations). The Library is an artistic reminiscence project developed by artist Sigrid Sigurdsson in 2005 and will be housed in the Historisches Museum Frankfurt (Historical Museum Frankfurt) until 2105. The principal intention of the participatory museum project is to archive the (her)story of migrant women by documenting their struggles through the years, achievements in the present day, and goals for the future. Since May 2023, the GKB’s memory box has been open to visit at the museum, along with four originally curated and edited publications in addition to the institutional archival and the participatory exhibitions’ materials.
The Future of the Present: Autonomous Archiving of Activist Videos
My doctoral research revealed that video activism is seen to carry ethical debates within itself, motivated by the regular documentation of human rights violations, which distinguishes it from citizen journalism. Moreover, by circulating the recordings on social media, the image transforms into an activist, namely, an activist video. Lastly, it was realized that autonomously archived records of protests play a significant role in non-linear and non-authoritarian history writing.
Private Museology: Establishing New Cultural Industries in Istanbul
This study aims at examining the integration of private museology into Istanbul’s culture industry in the twenty-first-century, and focuses on the case of the Pera Museum by looking at its communication strategies with regards to visitor perceptions and the museum’s reputation. In this context, this study examines the concept of museology both in modern and postmodern periods, and looks at the developments in Turkish museology in the twenty-first-century when private museums carrying a postmodern understanding of museology joined Istanbul’s culture industry. Moreover, based on a survey research conducted in January 2009 at the Pera Museum, one of the most distinguished private museums in Istanbul, the study analyzes the effects of postmodern museology on museum visitors. It discusses the ways in which perceptions and expectations of visitors changed as they were exposed to messages and offerings of the private museums during the postmodern period.