Ahmet Yükleyen

Ahmet Yükleyen is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations and president of DUPA (Research and Project Development Academy) at Istanbul Commerce University. He studied international relations at Bilkent University in Turkey and completed his MA degree at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. He received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Boston University in 2007. His book titled “Localizing Islam in Europe: Turkish Islamic Communities in Germany and the Netherlands” is published by Syracuse University Press in 2012. He was a senior resident fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for 2011-12. He was a visiting scholar at Sabanci University’s Conflict Analysis and Resolution program for 2013-4 with the support of TUBITAK.