Ebru Turhan is an Associate Professor of European Studies at the Turkish-German University, Istanbul. She is a member of the executive committee (September 2026-29) of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), and a member of the editorial boards of German Politics and Journal of Contemporary European Studies. She also serves as a senior fellow and member of the International Advisory Board at the Institute for European Politics (IEP) in Berlin and Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies, Virginia Tech. Previously, she was a visiting professor at TU Chemnitz, a 2013/14 Mercator-IPC Fellow at Istanbul Policy Center, and a senior expert at the Berlin Representation of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSIAD). She holds an MA in Contemporary European Studies from the University of Bath, UK., and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Cologne, Germany.

Turhan’s current research interests include EU-Turkey relations, German-Turkish relations, German foreign policy, transactionalism in international relations, external differentiation, and knowledge production hierarchies in IR and European Studies. She is the co-editor of the volume EU-Turkey Relations: Theories, Institutions, and Policies (Palgrave Macmillan), co-editor of the Special Issue Germany’s Central Role in EU-Turkey Relations and Its Implications for EU Foreign Policy (German Politics), and editor of the volume German-Turkish Relations Revisited: The European Dimension, Domestic and Foreign Politics and Transnational Dynamics (Nomos). Her articles have been published in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of International Relations and Development, German Politics, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, European Journal of Risk Regulation, and Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, among others. Turhan has coordinated and been involved in various EU-funded and international research projects and networks. Her commentaries and interviews appeared in the Washington Post, Deutsche Welle, Stern, Al Jazeera, ZDF, Tagesspiegel, Radio France, Deutschlandfunk, Rheinische Post, The National, and Die Presse, among others.