{"id":88,"date":"2017-12-13T19:27:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T19:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/janineguldener.com\/p_g\/ekrem\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2025-05-01T23:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:28:37","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"about me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was born in Munich\/Germany in the (early) 1970s where I lived until finishing high school. From 2005 until the summer of 2018 I lived and worked mostly in Istanbul. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From October 2018 until February 2022 I worked as a project manger for the Berghof Foundation’s „Regional Peace Support“ Program in the Turkey project and shortly also in the Afghanistan project. In October 2022 I rejoined Berghof in the MENA department to work again in a two-year Turkey project (until September 2024). From December 2024 until March 2025 I worked in two Iraq projects on the climate-conflict nexus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since October 2020 I am also a research fellow with the Athens-based think tank Eliamep, in its Turkey program<\/a>. From December 2020 until October 2021 I was a columnist for DuvarEnglish <\/a>(then the editor in chief resigned and we also left in solidarity). Since early 2021 I am a member of the editorial board of the journal Brasilicum<\/a>. Since July 2024 I am based between Munich, Campina Grande (Paraiba, Brazil) and Turkey (Urla and Istanbul).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From February 2017 until the September 2018, I worked in Istanbul as a free-lance political analyst, consultant, journalist and lecturer and two months as a producer for Italian RAI TV & Radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October 2017 I finally could defend my PhD thesis<\/a>, which I wrote on Brazil-Turkey relations at the university of Hamburg between October 2015 and October 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2007 to 2013 I worked for the international think tank ESI (European Stability Initiative) and for the German political foundation Heinrich B\u00f6ll from 2005 to 2007. Before coming to Istanbul, I worked two years in Rome for the communication’s agency Walueurope and in the European Parliament in Brussels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started my university education in 1994 at the Free University of Berlin, studying political science at the prestigious Otto-Suhr Institute. After finishing the undergraduate studies, I studied one year at Indiana University and finished my master’s in Berlin in 2000 with a thesis on civil society in Turkey and Egypt. Afterwards I studied the post-graduate Euromasters in Bath, Paris (Sciences Po) and Madrid (Carlos III). During my time in Istanbul, I made a master’s in peace studies at the distance learning University of Hagen (2008).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a more detailed CV you can also consult my linkedin page, https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ekrem-eddy-guzeldere\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This website was launched first in 2012 and relaunched in February 2018. I collect here examples of my work since the mid-2000s, be it for think tanks, as a journalist or academic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was born in Munich\/Germany in the (early) 1970s where I lived until finishing high school. From 2005 until the summer of 2018 I lived and worked mostly in Istanbul. From October 2018 until February 2022 I worked as a project manger for the Berghof Foundation’s „Regional Peace Support“ Program in the Turkey project and shortly also in the Afghanistan project. In October 2022 I rejoined Berghof in the MENA Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-88","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzeldere.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}