Lerna K Yanik

Lerna K. Yanık is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey. She received her Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University and has worked at Bilkent University, in Ankara, Turkey before coming to Kadir Has University. Her current research is about the discursive construction of politics of space and place and political economy that surrounds it, especially with respect to Turkey. Her recent analytical piece on Turkey was published in Global Brief. She has also published in journals such as Turkish Studies and Uluslararası İlişkiler (in Turkish), Political Geography, Geopolitics, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Human Rights Quarterly and Europe-Asia Studies.