I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), working on the Horizon Europe project EDGE (Enhancing Democratic Support under Conditions of Geographic and Intersectional Inequalities in Europe). In this project, I contribute to research on how media and information environments frame inequalities and attribute blame, and how this shapes citizens’ perceptions of fairness and their support for democracy across Europe.

My research interests lie at the intersection of political psychology, public opinion, and political communication, with a particular focus on migration-related attitudes and policy domains.

I hold a joint PhD in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam and Koç University (2026). In my dissertation, I investigated how perceived group entitlements, perceived violations of these entitlements, and distinct emotional reactions to migration, particularly compassion, anger, and anxiety, drive exclusionary attitudes toward immigrants across entry and post-entry policy domains.

Before joining ASCoR, I was a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University and a researcher at the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc), where I worked on the project “Interactive Social Integration Model for Improving Migration Governance in Turkey”.

Research expertise

• political psychology
• public opinion
• migration studies
• emotions in politics
• surveys and survey experiments