Alev Irmak Kurtulmus

Irmak holds a BA with honors degree in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University, and an MA degree with distinction from Sabancı University in Turkey. Her interests lie in humanitarianism, forced migration, migration governance, refugee regimes in the Middle Eastern countries, comparative politics, political sociology, and identity. Her research interests have mainly developed out of her professional experiences within the humanitarian field, working with several top national and international organizations in Turkey. Her doctoral research investigates the intersection of state-non-state actors in relation to humanitarianism and the relationship between international organizations' domestic involvement and host state around refugee governance.