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IPC-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative

Democratizing the City: Urban Citizenship in Buenos Aires and Istanbul

The Initiative organized a seminar by Mert Arslanalp, Visiting Professor at Özyeğin University, titled “Democratizing the City: Urban Citizenship in Buenos Aires and Istanbul” on April 18, 2016 at IPC. The event was convened by MercatorIPC Fellow Defne Kadıoğlu Polat with Çağlar Keyder, Mercator-IPC Senior Fellow and Professor at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University, participating as a discussant.

Defne Kadıoğlu Polat

Defne Kadıoğlu Polat

Defne Kadıoğlu Polat was born in 1984 in Germany to Turkish parents. She graduated from the University of Düsseldorf's Social Sciences Department and obtained her Master's degree from the University of Essex in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights.

defnekadioglu@gmail.com