Zelal Başak Kızılkan

Visiting Fellow

Dr Zelal Başak Kızılkan is currently Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre carrying out a research on the 'Neighborhood Policies of the EU and Turkey after Arab Uprising', supported by the Newton-Katip Çelebi Fund of the British Council. Her project analyses the implications of Turkish regional activism towards the MENA countries on Turkey–EU relations. It aims to explore the challenges and opportunities for Turkey and the EU to pursue a common policy in their wider neighbourhood based on common principles and soft power instruments. Zelal is also Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Mardin Artuklu University in Turkey.  She completed her PhD at the University of Cologne in 2012.

Contact Details

Email: z.kizilkan@lse.ac.uk
Tel:  +44 (0)74 4955 0590
Twitter: @zelal6

Research Interests

• Turkey-EU relations; 
• Europeanization;
• Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU;
• Turkish Foreign Policy;
• Minority Protection, Human Rights;
• Turkish Foreign Policy;
• Kurdish Issue in Turkey.

Selected Publications

• Kizilkan-Kisacik, Zelal, ‘Minority Protection Revisited: Theory, Jurisdiction and Practice,’ Review of Strategic and International Studies, Volume VI, Number 2014.

• Kizilkan-Kisacik, Zelal, ‘Europeanization of Minority Rights: Discourse, Practice, and Change in Turkey’ 1 European Diversity and Autonomy Papers – EDAP (2010).

• Kizilkan-Kisacik, Zelal, ‘The Impact of Political Conditionality on Minority Rights in Turkey, Strengthening and Integrating Academic Networks, Working Paper – 4 November 2009.

• Kizilkan-Kısacık, Zelal with Hakan Samur (eds), Democratization in Turkey: The Analysis of Change from the Perspectives of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Turkey, (Çizgi Kitabevi, Konya, 2014)

• Kizilkan-Kisacik, Zelal, Europeanization of Minority Norms in Turkey, Studies on the European Union, (Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2013)

• Kizilkan Zelal Başak, European Union, Kurdish Issue and Settlement Process, (Avrupa Birliği, Kürt Sorunu ve Çözüm Süreci in Dinç Cengiz, ‘Avrupa ve Avrupa Birliği: Teori, Güncel İç Gelişmeler ve Dış İlişkiler,’) (Savaş Yayınevi, Ankara, 2016)

• Kızılkan-Kısacak with Hakan Samur, 'Introduction: On Democratic Change', in Samur, Hakan and Zelal Kizilkan-Kisacik (eds), Democratization in Turkey: The Analysis of Change from the Perspectives of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Turkey (Çizgi Kitabevi, Konya, 2014).

• Kizilkan-Kisacik, Zelal, ‘European Integration Process and its Impact on Democratization in Turkey’ in Samur, Hakan and Zelal Kizilkan-Kisacik (eds), Democratization in Turkey: The Analysis of Change from the Perspectives of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Turkey (Çizgi Kitabevi, Konya, 2014).

• Kizilkan-Kisacik, Zelal, ‘Europeanization of Turkish Foreign Policy’ in Demir, Hakan and Tuncer, Metin (eds), Studies on European Integration (Sakarya Üniversitesi AB Araştırma ve Dokümantasyon Merkezi Yayinevi, Ekim, 2013)

• Kizilkan-Kisacik, Zelal, ‘The impact of the EU on Minority rights: The Kurds as a Case,’ in Cengiz Gunes and Welat Zeydanlıoglu, (eds), The Kurdish Question in Turkey: New perspectives on Violence, Representation, and Reconciliation, (New York, Routledge, 2013)