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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Articles

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  1. ​"Analysis of Diplomatic Texts with LLMs: A Hybrid Approach in Computational Social Sciences," 2025 33rd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Sile, Istanbul, Turkiye, 2025, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/SIU66497.2025.11112347.

  2. 'Game-theoretic agent-based modeling of micro-level conflict:  Evidence from the ISIS-Kurdish war.' PLoSONE 19(6): e0297483.  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297483

  3. 'Democratization, state capacity and developmental correlates of international artificial intelligence trade'. Democratization, 1-31. 2023

  4. 'Using Social Media to Monitor Conflict-Related Migration: A Review of Implications for A.I. Forecasting'. Social Sciences. 2022, 11, 395

  5. "Temporary Topic Models in Social Sciences: A Study on STM," 2022 30th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2022

  6. "Securitization of Disinformation in NATO’s Lexicon: A Computational Text Analysis". All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace 11 (2022): 211-231

  7. 'Russian Digital Influence Operations in Turkey 2015-2020' POMEPS Studies, Vol. 43, 2022'

  8. ‘Internet, Social Media and Conflict Studies Can Greater Interdisciplinarity Solve the Field’s Analytical Deadlocks?’ St. Anthony’s International Review Vol. 14, No. 3, 2019

  9. ‘Computational IR: What Coding, Programming and Internet Research Can Do for the Discipline?’ All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace Vol. 8, No. 2, 2019

  10. ‘The Logic of Secrecy: Digital Surveillance in Turkey and Russia’ Turkish Policy Quarterly. Volume 17, No. 2. Summer 2018 

  11. ‘Digital Challenges to Democracy: Politics of Algorithms, Automation and Attention’. Journal of International Affairs Vol. 71, No. 1, Summer 2018 

  12. ‘The fog of leadership: How Turkish and Russian Presidents manage information constraints and uncertainty in crisis decision-making’ Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2018

  13. ‘Militancy Governance Under State Failure: Models of Legitimacy Contestation in Ungoverned Spaces’ Journal of Security Strategies. Vol. 13, No. 26. October 2017

  14. ‘Paris İklim Anlaşmasına Teorik Yaklaşım: Neo-Neo Tartışması, Eko-Marksizm ve Yeşil Kapitalizm’ (IR Theoretical Approach to the Paris Climate Agreement: Neo-Neo Debate, Eco-Marxism and Green Capitalism). Uluslararası İlişkiler, (ISSN: 1304-7310) Vol. 13, No. 54, May 2017.

  15. ‘Ideology, Political Agenda, and Conflict: A Comparison of American, European, and Turkish Legislatures’ Discourses on Kurdish Question’. All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace. Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 49-82

  16. ‘Third Parties in European Politics: Corrective and Conveyor Formations’. Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs. Vol. 21, No. 2, Summer 2016, pp. 1-28 

  17. ‘How Turks Mobilized Against the Coup: The Power of the Mosque and the Hashtag – A Geospatial Analysis’ Foreign Affairs, September 14, 2016 [Winner: Society for Digital Diplomacy: Best Research Article in the Field of Digital Politics, April 2017​​] (original link)

  18. ‘Weak States, Strong Non-state Actors: Theory of Competitive Control in Northern Syria’. Ortadoğu Etüdleri, Vol. 8, No. 1, July 2016, pp.58-78 

  19. ‘Turkish-Iranian Energy Cooperation and Conflict: The Regional Politics’. Middle East Policy. Summer 2016, Vol. 23, No. 2 

  20. ‘Schrödinger’s Kurds: Transnational Kurdish Politics in the Age of Shifting Borders’. Journal of International Affairs, Spring/Summer 2016, Vol. 69, No. 2.

  21. ‘How Turkey’s Islamists Fell out of love with Iran’. Middle East Policy, Vol. 19 Issue: 4, Winter 2012. Pp. 103-109 

  22. ‘The Forgotten Turkish Secular Model’. Middle East Quarterly. Vol.20 N:1, Winter 2013 

Books

Book Chapters

1.Sosyal Veri Bilimi: Programlama, Modelleme ve Sosyal Bilimlerde Dijital/Hesaplamalı Yöntemler [Social Data Science: Programming, Modeling and Digital/Computational Methods in Social Sciences]. Istanbul: Bilgi University Press. 2026

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2. Turkey's Kurdish Question: Discourse & Politics Since 1990 (1st ed.). London: Routledge (Series in Middle East Politics). 2015

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  1. 'The Strategic Logic of Digital Disinformation: Offense, Defense and Deterrence in Information Warfare' in Arcos, R. et. al. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Disinformation and National Security. (Routledge, 2023)

  2. 'Conflict and forced migration: Social media as event data' in Salah, A. (ed.) Data Science for Migration and Mobility (Oxford University Press, 2022)

  3. 'Bilişimsel Uluslararası İlişkiler: Akışkan Veri, Programlama ve Internet Araştırmalarının Disipline Ne Katkısı Olabilir?' in Aydinli, E. (ed.) Uluslararası iliskilerde Metodoloji (Koç University Press, 2022)

  4. 'Politics of Artificial Intelligence Adoption Unpacking the Regime Type Debate' in Filimowicz, M. (ed.) Democratic Frontiers: Algorithms and Society (Routledge, 2022) with Arhan S. Ertan

  5. ‘Turkey’s Resource and Technology Politics’ in Whithing, M. and Alp Ozerdem (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics’ (Routledge, 2019)

  6. ‘Computational Propaganda in Unadministered Territories of Northern Syria’ in Dal, E. P. (ed.) Territorial Control and Non-State Actors in Syria (Springer, December 2017) 

Policy Reports and White Papers

  1. 'Artificial intelligence (AI) and human rights: Using AI as a weapon of repression and its impact on human rights'. Policy Department for External Relations Directorate General for External Policies of the Union PE 754.450 – May 2024

  2. ‘Artificial Intelligence, Authoritarianism and the Future of Political Systems’ The Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM) Report. 15 June 2018. Funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung

  3. ‘Digital Open Source Intelligence and International Security: A Primer’ The Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM) Report. 15 May 2018 Funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung​

  4. ‘Computational Diplomacy: Foreign Policy Communication in the Age of Algorithms and Automation’ The Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM) Report. 16 February 2017. Funded by the Chrest Foundation​

  5. ‘Russia May Block EU Energy Ambitions With Turkish Stream Pipeline – A Geospatial Analysis’. World Politics Review. Nov. 7, 2016​

  6. ‘Cross-Border Data Transfers and Data Localization’ [with Grace B. Kim] The Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM) Papers. 3 June 2016 Funded by the Chrest Foundation​

  7. ‘Data Privacy and Surveillance in Turkey: An Assessment of the Draft Law on the Protection of Personal Data’ [with Grace B. Kim] The Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM) Papers. 19 February 2016. Funded by the Chrest Foundation

Please refer to my ResearchGate page for a full listing of my publications

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