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Semanur Pekkendir

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Semanur Pekkendir is a deputy researcher at TRT World Research Centre. She received her BA in Comparative Literature and Media Studies from Istanbul Bilgi University and her MSc in Migration, Mobility and Development at SOAS, University of London. Her research interests include Turkish migration and asylum policies, citizenship and integration.

 

Items by Semanur Pekkendir

  • The refugee crisis is not as Eurocentric as before, but it still exists

    It has been three years since the European Union signed the “one in, one out” deal with Turkey on 18 March, 2016. The ongoing humanitarian crisis on the Greek Islands shows that the refugee issue has not been solved; instead, it is simply being contained on the periphery of...

  • Syrian refugees in Turkey and the changing concept of Turkish citizenship

    Granting citizenship to Syrians in Turkey is a topic of discussion today more than ever before. So far, more than 50,000 Syrians have acquired Turkish citizenship. This has ignited debates among the Turkish public, primarily due to the provocative media coverage of the topic and increasing nationalism in Turkey. Citizenship...

  • Why the label ‘migrant’ should bother you

    Summer 2015 saw the fixation of international media outlets upon “Europe’s Migrant Crisis”. It was the largest wave of mass-migration that Europe has faced since the end of the Second World War. Al-Jazeera instigated a debate about the media coverage of people crossing the Mediterranean to seek a life...