I am a Reader in Demography at European Business School in Regent's College London teaching International Marketing. Before joining
EBSL, I worked as a Leverhulme Research Fellow at The Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship in the University of Bristol (2005)
and as an Assistant Professor in Management and Head of Department in Tourism Management in a private university in Ankara, Turkey
(2003-2004).
With Jeff Cohen and Elli Heikkila, I have launched Migration Letters, the first ever letter-type international scholarly journal of population and
migration studies in 2003.
My research interests spans into various multidisciplinary areas including segmentation, segregation, mobility, transnational space, ethnic
marketing, ethnic conflict, migration patterns and theories, ethnic and immigrant businesses, and reproductive health. My recent work has
focused on ethnic residential segregation and labour market outcomes in the UK, conflict based modelling of international migration,
internal migration in Turkey, transnational consumer segments, and marketing of business schools in the UK.
Some of my research has been published as journal articles in various journals such as International Migration, Ethnic and Racial
Studies, Population Review, Journal of Biosocial Science, and GENUS while some others have appeared as book chapters. I have also
presented at various international refereed conferences of learned societies and associations including IUSSP, EAPS, and BSPS as well
as delivering numerous invited speeches in Europe and North America.
My first edited book, Internal Migration in Turkey was published by Tarih Vakfi Yurt Yayinlari in 1998 and my ethnographic work titled The
Environment of Insecurity in Turkey and the Emigration of Turkish Kurds to Germany is published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2006.
Within these pages you will also find links to demographic resources worldwide including links to population geography, ethnicity and
migration webs. If you are interested there are also pages of my amateur poetry, and Freelonia if you are into micronations.
