• Secularism
• Identity Politics
• Immigration
• Multiculturalism
• Constitutions
• French politics
• Turkish politics

Ongoing Research Projects:

"Politics of Multiculturalism, Religion and Diversity: A Comparison of France, Turkey and Germany", 2012-2013
Funded: Tübitak 2219
Host: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen

"Politics, Religion and Society before and through the 1980 Military Takeover in Turkey, 1975-1987, funded by the Boğaziçi University Research Fund 2012--

"Discriminatory and Multiculturalist Speech in the Turkish Media," funded by the Boğaziçi University Research Fund 2011--2012

"The Politics of Laiklik in the Writing of the 1961 Turkish Constitution," funded by the Boğaziçi University Research Fund 2010-2011

"The Guests Who Returned: Retired Memories of 'Europe' in Turkey," funded by the Boğaziçi University Research Fund 2006-2009

Teaching Material for Questions of Secularism, Religion and European Integration

News:
France:
Sarkozy Speaks on Burka
Burka debate

Banning the Burqa__27.01.2010
Sarkozy Stirs French Burka Debate_22.06.2009
Sarkozy says burka “not welcome” in France_14.01.2010
French Socialist Party Opposes Burka Ban_6.01.2010
France Pays Immigrants to Return Home
Catholic Church and Paedophilia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4077493.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3717452.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4109125.stm

Greece:
Greece in crisis and religion

Spain:
Propuesto sobre el contrato de inmıgrantes_07.02.2008
Zapatero habla sobre inmigrantes y el PP_ 01.03.2008

Zapatero cita la Biblia en defensa de inmigrantes_05.02.2010
Los alcaldes del PP opina sobre las bodas gays_ 27.04.2005
Madrid celebra el matrimonio homosexual _03.07.2005
'En España se gobierna no desde el púlpito' _ 25.07.2004
Los católicos se movilizan por su modelo de familia _27.12.2009
El hiyab: el tema del sermón _ 30.04.2010
Najwa lucha para el velo_ 21.04.2010

Llamado de Asociaciones Musulmanas_ 26.04.2010

Los obispos defienden el velo _ 24.04.2010

El Ministerio de Educacion habla sobre creencias _ 16.04.2010

İspanya Başörtüsünü tartışıyor

'Turquía debe tener la puerta abierta a la UE' _05.04.2009

57 medidas sobre el diálogo entre civilizaciones _ 15.01.2008

12 acuerdos del I Foro de Civilizaciones _16.01.2008
Turquia busca el respaldo de España ante la UE_ 14.01.2008

Zapatero acuerda con el Vaticano_ 04.02.2009

World Constitutions:
http://www.servat.unibe.ch/icl/