Ebru Turhan is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science & International Relations at the Turkish-German University in Istanbul and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Politics (IEP) in Berlin. She is the coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module “INSITER-Inside the Turkey-EU Relations” (www.insiter.tau.edu.tr), co-financed by the European Commission. She also serves as the co-editor of the “Turkey and European Union Studies” book series at Nomos.

Turhan is a 2013/14 Mercator-IPC Fellow. The title of her project was “German-Turkish Relations: Towards an Integrated Approach in Light of a New Global Challenges, the Euro Crisis and the Debate on the Future Architecture of the European Union.”

From February 2006 to September 2013, Ebru Turhan worked at the Berlin Representation of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD), where she held the position of senior expert and project manager. She received her MA degree in Contemporary European Studies (with distinction) from the University of Bath and her PhD in Political Science (summa cum laude) from the University of Cologne in 2012.

Turhan’s current research interests include EU-Turkey affairs, external differentiated integration between the EU and third countries, EU enlargement policy, German-Turkish relations, the EU-Turkey refugee “deal,” and German foreign policy.