New Publication Alert! Thrilled to announce our latest open-access article with zeynepmencutek in International Migration! "Refugee Return, Reintegration, and Citizenship Practices in Post‐Conflict Syria" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #Syria #Reintegration #Citizenship

I am organizing a panel, too! Please consider joining 📣: “Actors of Conflict and Peace in the Middle East: Changing Dynamics and Emerging Identities” #MiddleEast #academia #peace

🗓️ Happening today: Online Panel Discussion "Trump, Tribes and Transformations: Redefining Power Dynamics in Northeast Syria in the Post-Assad Era." 06 February, 14:00–15:00 (Berlin time) Speakers: Prof. Carole O'Leary, Dr. Max Mutschler bicc.de/Events/Trump-T…

Excited to share our piece for TIME with Serhun AL, exploring the history of Kurdish struggles for autonomy across the Middle East. You can read it here: time.com/7207397/kurdis…

🚨 Call for Papers! Join our panel at #MESA2025 (Nov 22-25, Washington, DC): "Actors of #Conflict and #Peace in the #MiddleEast: Changing Dynamics and Emerging Identities" 📌 MESA membership required 📅 By Feb 12 (Wednesday) 📩 DM or email me to join! mesana.org/annual-meeting…

Happening today: Join the launch of the new bicc policy brief Syrian Refugee Returns: What Policy Must Do! 13:00h CET Premature return to insecure environments often leads to renewed displacement, undermining long-term development and stability goals. bicc.de/Events/Syrian-…

📢 New Policy Brief Calls for the swift return of #SyrianRefugees to Syria ignore critical risks. Premature returns to unstable conditions fuel displacement cycles & harm both host & origin countries. Read our latest brief on responsible return policies: bicc.de/Publications/R…

🚨 New Resource Alert! 🚨 The GAPs Data Repository on Return Migration is now live! 🌍📊 🔗 Explore comprehensive data on national return regimes: data.returnmigration.eu 🔍 Search, filter & download datasets 📈 Interactive visualizations for better insights

📢Exciting news! The Return Migration Data Repository is live! Proud to co-design this unique platform for qual & quant data across EU & non-EU countries.🔎Dive in & save: data.returnmigration.eu zeynepmencutek GAPs Return Migration #ReturnMigration #DataSet #MigrationResearch #OpenData

📢 Research Dossier on Return to Syria with contributions by GAPs researchers. With Assad’s fall (Dec 2024), return debates intensify. This GAPs dossier unpacks the politics, policies & lived realities shaping Syrian return.

📰New Policy Brief on Syrian Refugee Returns BICC’s latest brief urges reasonable, rights-based return policies. bicc - Bonn Internat. Centre for Conflict Studies zeynepmencutek Osman Bahadır Dinçer Ruth Vollmer and Selina Engelberth Experts push for fact-based, inclusive strategies 🔗Read more: returnmigration.eu/gaps-news/new-…

Available to order now This book examines Turkey's evolving diaspora policies, analysing how the state engages, controls, and mobilizes its overseas communities as tools of diplomacy and nation-building. SGIA Durham IMEIS-DU routledge.com/Turkeys-Diaspo…

This is the first output from my dissertation research, I am sharing it as a preprint SSRN. It studies the distributional politics of green energy transition in Europe, by focusing on financing of renewables in Germany and the UK. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

My brilliant friend is now Dr.! It’s been such a joy to witness your journey -full of dedication, brilliance, and resilience. So well-deserved, Büşra! I’m lucky to know and have worked with such an inspiring soul. Huge congrats!

Working on return migration? Make sure to submit your abstract for the final #GAPsProject conference, which I’m excited to be co-organizing at Akdeniz University Akdeniz Üniversitesi in Antalya! 🔗 returnmigration.eu/final-conferen… with Susan Rottmann Soner Barthoma zeynepmencutek

Happening now at #imiscoe2025! A fascinating session reflecting on Data, Access, Politics in Coerced Return Migration in the Global South by GAPs Return Migration scholars zeynepmencutek Soner Barthoma N. Ela Gokalp Aras Osman Bahadır Dinçer Maissam Nimer , Marieke van Houte, Nora Stel

Third DFG public | @[email protected] funded article on the New Autocratic Way of War (case studies: KSA & VAE) /w Max Mutschler is now online in Defence Studies (open access)! 😌📔 Go check it out (1/2): tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📣 Postdoc vacancy! I am looking for a qualitative postdoc (3 years, 100%) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement, 85%) and my project #SYREALITY (Syrian Imaginations of Europe meet Reality, 15%).

A short reflection on my recent visit to Syria, which coincided with the anniversary of the regime change: Reconstruction, Social Fragmentation, and the Limits of Return Discussions bicc.de/Cosmos/Peacebi…