Arzu Yilmaz, PhD
Associate Professor
Introduction
Arzu Yilmaz is an Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations Department at the University of Kurdistan Hewler since 2022. Prior to this, she was an Alexander von Humboldt scholar at the University of Hamburg, Germany, in 2019–2022, and a postdoctoral researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in the capacity of IPC-Mercator Fellow in 2016–2018.
Education
- - Ph.D. in International Relations, Ankara University, Turkey, 2015.
- - MS in International Relations, Ankara University,Turkey, 2006.
- - MS in Gender Studies, Ankara University, 2006.
- - BS in Public Relations Marmara University, Turkey, 1993
Research
Arzu Yilmaz is the author of the book “From Atroush to Makhmour: Kurdish Refugees and Reconstruction of Identity” (in Turkish), published in 2016 by İletişim Yayınları. Her main research interests are foreign policy, Middle East politics, Kurdish conflict, migration, and gender studies. She has published extensively on the Kurdish conflict, Turkish foreign policy, the Syrian civil war, and Iraq in academic journals as well as in newspapers and online publications. Her recent publications are ‘Two Waves of Kurdish Politicians in Exile: A Comparative Analysis’, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2023.2223872; ‘Geopolitical Shifts and Ethnic Conflicts: The Transnational Kurdish Conflict in the Contemporary Middle East’ (co-authored with Gülistan Gürbey). Edited by Arzu Yılmaz and Gülistan Gürbey. International Journal of Conflict and Violence 16 (2022): 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11576/ijcv-6098;‘Kurdistan-Iraq and Turkey.’ In Between Diplomacy and Non-Diplomacy, edited by Gülistan Gürbey, Sabine Hofmann and Ferhad Ibrahim Seyder. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.