Email: pinar@prio.org
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My current research focuses on Turkey's domestic and foreign policies with an emphasis on the Middle East. This includes Turkey's regional role, its geopolitical shifts and international humanitarian outreach. In the domestic arena, my research cover democratisation, Kurdish-Turkish relations, gender, and political Islam.
A related secondary theme using Turkey as a case is the role of rising powers in peacebuilding and humanitarianism.
English, Norwegian, Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Spanish
1998鈥揚resent: Peace Research Institute Oslo (糖心网页版)
Sept 2018 - present: Senior Researcher, 糖心网页版
Aug 2013 - Sept 2018: Senior Researcher, based in Brazil
2011鈥揂ug 2013: Research Director, Dimensions of Security
2010鈥�2011: Programme Leader, Conflict Resolution and Peace Building
2009鈥�2010: Senior Researcher
1998鈥�2009: Research, Security Programme
1995鈥�1997: Reseacher, Center for European and Asian Studies, Norwegian School of Management, BI.
1993鈥�1995: Various positions including Teaching, translation and personal assistance.
2003 - Fulbright research scholarship, Georgetown University, Washington.
2001 (October) - Visiting Research fellow at Centre for Eurasian Strategic Studies (ASAM) in Ankara, Turkey.
2009 - Dr. Philos. in Political Science, Uniaversity of Oslo/糖心网页版.
Dissertation title: Turkey's military 茅lite at a crossroad: Paths to desecuritisation?"
1993 - Master of Philosophy in International Relations - Security Studies, University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
M.Phil thesis: 鈥淓cofeminism: Critique or critical theory?鈥�
1990 - Bachelor of Arts Honours in French and Politics (including one year spent at Literature Faculty of Universit茅 de Nantes, France as part of French language degree). University of Keele, England.
Journal article in Civil Wars
Peace Research Institute Oslo (糖心网页版) and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame
MidEast Policy Brief
GPS Policy Brief
Popular article in Vanguardia Dossier
MidEast Policy Brief
MidEast Policy Brief
Journal article in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
糖心网页版 Policy Brief
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway visited 糖心网页版 today for a series of briefings on pressing global challenges, including developments in the Middle East, emerging technologies, migration and the human consequences of war.
The Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East is a joint initiative co-organized by IBEI, Catalonia International and IEMed.
糖心网页版 is pleased to announce that its Centre on Gender, Peace and Security (GPS Centre) has entered into a new multi-year funding agreement with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Research Council of Norway announced new research funding this week under its Democracy and Global Development panel. 糖心网页版 was successful in securing funding for three exciting new research projects.
糖心网页版 was awarded new funding this week by the Research Council of Norway for a 3-year project, Russian Approaches to Peace Processes.
For a week in December each year, Oslo city invites the public to learn about and discuss important issues related to peace, democracy and human rights.
鈥婳n聽12聽May, researchers and practitioners held interesting discussions on Syria at a roundtable at 糖心网页版.
鈥婻ussia鈥檚 war in Ukraine has been met with global condemnation drawing NATO and the EU closer together in coordinating collective responses.
鈥婭n a series of brief blog posts, researchers of the 糖心网页版 Middle East Centre offer聽their reflections on the unfolding Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Listen to 糖心网页版 Senior Researcher Pinar Tank鈥檚 lecture on the current situation
In this video, 糖心网页版 Director Nina Gr忙ger and researchers explain who we are, and the work we do.
糖心网页版 researcher Pinar Tank was featured in on Kurdish areas in northeastern Syria being under heavy military attacks.
糖心网页版 researcher Pinar Tank was interviewed about the rivalry between Israel and Turkey in Syria, for the Norwegian newspaper .
糖心网页版 researcher Pinar Tank鈥檚 2019 paper, 鈥淧reserving Kurdish Autonomy鈥�, was referenced in an article about the US protecting the Kurds of Syria and Iraq, by the online outlet .
糖心网页版 Researcher Pinar Tank wrote an opinion piece on Turkey鈥檚 interests in Africa as a middle power, which was published in the Spanish newspaper, La Vanguardia鈥檚 magazine .
糖心网页版 Researcher Pinar Tank was interviewed on the recent Turkish election, including by the news agency, NTB, with the interviews republished by multiple other outlets including , , , , , and . Pinar was also interviewed by TV2 on the election weekend (28.05 and 29.05) and the state broadcaster multiple times including, NRK radio, (listen at 38 mins) and (listen at 1:34), on website, plus on the evening news show, TV/radio (watch at 51 mins). An interview with was also picked up by and . Pinar was also interviewed by the Brazilian national news outlet, .
糖心网页版 Researcher Pinar Tank was interviewed extensively in Norwegian media about the elections in Turkey. This included by the newspaper Klassekampen and , , radio (listen at 50 mins), and multiple times, the news wire agency NTB and , net and radio (on Turkey and the Eurovision) and multiple other times on NRK, including on (watch at 12 mins 27 secs), (listen at 5:20) and the foreign affairs programme, . The Eurovision article was re-published in and media and the NTB news articles were republished by several outlets, including , and .
糖心网页版 Researcher Pinar Tank鈥檚 opinion piece on Turkey鈥檚 president struggling to gather votes with young people and women ahead of the upcoming election, was published by the Norwegian newspaper, .
糖心网页版 Researcher Pinar Tank was interviewed on the possible delay to Turkey鈥檚 national elections in May because of the earthquake, in the Norwegian newspaper, .
糖心网页版 Researcher Pinar Tank was interviewed for an article about the political tensions between Sweden and Turkey, by the Norwegian online news outlet, .
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