About Me

I was born in Ankara in 1980. After four years’ education in TED Ankara Private College Primary Section, I have concluded my primary education in London Myatt Garden Primary School. I continued to my secondary and high school education in Gazi Anatolian High School.  In 1997, I was admitted to Ankara University Faculty of Political Science which, was founded in 1859 in the time of Ottoman Empire and later was revitalized in accordance with the Turkish Republic, and has a privileged position with its tradition and antiquity by educating the administrative staff and many of the most important political characters in Turkey. I graduated from the University in 2001. Being able to understand the social and historical phenomena by realizing the role of labour economics in human history have triggered my desire of making a career in the field of Labour Economics and Social Policy.

In 2001, I attended the “Labour Economics, Industrial Relations and Social Policy” master programme in Ankara University Faculty of Political Science. Later that year I applied as a research assistant to realize my objective of making academic career to Ankara University Faculty of Political Science. Since 2002 I have been a research fellow in Ankara University Faculty of Political Science Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations.

In 2004, I concluded the master programme and submitted my master thesis, “Impacts of the economic policies post 1980 on income distribution in Turkey”. Same year I started PhD and decided to study labour and social policy through an historical aspect. Hence, I have started to study the history of production and labour processes and submitted my PhD thesis, “The birth of modern factory system and its phases until today”, in 2010.

In 2013, I was awarded with the Turkish Council of Higher Education (YÖK), Post-Doctoral Research Grant and conducted research at University of Tübingen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Instituts für Politikwissenschaft) as a post-doc fellow. 

Since 2010 I have been giving lectures in Turkish and English titled “Introduction to Social Policy”, “European Union Employment and Social Policy”, “Labour Market Analysis”, “Wage Theories and Wage Policies” and “The History of Social Policy” in Ankara University Faculty of Political Science. I am interested in different aspects of social policy, income distribution, wage theories, wage policies, especially the implementations about the minimum wage, human resources and human capital in employment, labour markets and the social policy perspective of labour market structure in Turkey especially the gender inequalities and the conditions of women in labour market. 

I married in 2014 and my son was born in 2015. Beside my academic life, I am interested with literature, geography, history, archeology and mythology. I have a poetry book which I dedicated to my wife and novel drafts some I started but couldn’t find the opportunity to finish. I am a Besiktas fan and closely related with tribune culture. I am a deep Star Wars and Lord of the Rings fan. I still have fan film projects which I couldn’t find the opportunity to shoot. I am interested in all sort of plants especially potted ones. I am interested in the art of Bonsai. I have a ficus ginseng which is started to take a tree form after five years pruning. I have many planted trees here and there and many others which I intent to plant.