Başak Zeynep Alpan

Başak Zeynep Alpan

Partner institution: Middle East Technical University

Başak Zeynep Alpan is an Associate Professor and a Lecturer in European Politics and Political Sociology at the Centre for European Studies and the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK with her research on the Turkish discourses on ‘Europe’ in the post-1999 period. She conducts research and extensively writes on the European integration, discourse theory, poststructuralism, Turkish-EU Relations and football and identity. Some recent articles by Alpan are, ‘The Impact of Populism on Turkey-EU Relations’ which appeared in International Spectator (2019) and ‘Perceptions of Brexit within Turkish Political Debates’ (together with Ö. Şenyuva) which appeared in the edited book by Routledge, ‘Changing Perceptions of the EU at times of Brexit: Global Perspectives’ co- edited by N. Chaban, A. Niemann and J. Speyer (2019).

Alpan worked in many EU-funded projects as a researcher, including FREE (Football Research in an Enlarged Europe), which aims at contributing to a better understanding of football as a highly relevant social and cultural phenomenon in contemporary Europe and FEUTURE (the Future of Turkey-EU Relations) aiming at mapping dynamics and testing alternative scenarios regarding the future of Turkish EU integration. She is currently the Coordinator of the LEAP (‘Linking to Europe at the Periphery’) Network, funded by the Jean Monnet Networks Programme under Erasmus Plus. Başak Zeynep Alpan is also currently the Executive Board Member of the Centre for European Studies of the Middle East Technical University.