Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
M. Nergiz Altınsoy received her B.Sc. in Political Science and Public Administration from Middle East Technical University; M.A. in Political Science from Bilkent University, where she wrote the thesis “Household Survival Strategies of the Urban Poor in Turkey”; M.Sc. in Urban Policy Planning and Local Governments from Middle East Technical University, where she wrote “Social Policy in the Urban Context: Contemporary Turkish Local Governments on the Way to the European Union”. Her current research interests are contemporary Turkish politics, urban politics, political Islam and civilization, state, and social transformation processes in Turkey. She has been working on her PhD dissertation, named "The Politics of Civilization during the Justice and Development Party Rule (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi - AKP)," where she explores the intellectual roots of civilization as an ideology and the ways in which this ideology has been manifested especially through state policies regarding cultural, educational, urban, and foreign policy realms by the AKP governments since 2002.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Turkish Studies
Modernization
Nationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Anatolia
Turkey
Specialties
Contemporary Turkish Politics
Civilization
Languages
English (advanced)
French (elementary)
Turkish (native)
Education
MS
| 2006
| Urban Policy Planning and Local Governments
| METU
MA
| 2002
| Political Science and Public Administration
| Bilkent
BS
| 1997
| Political Science and Public Administration
| METU
Abstracts
Founders of AKP’s Civilizationist Ideology: Ahmet Davutoğlu and İbrahim Kalın in a Comparative Perspective
