Kemal Kirişci is the

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senior fellow and director of the Center on the United States and Europe's Turkey Project at

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, with an expertise in Turkish foreign policy and migration studies. Until recently, he was a

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at the Department of

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and

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Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University ( tr, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a major research university in Istanbul, Turkey. Its main campus is located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait. It has six faculties and two ...

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. He holds a

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in European Integration and is also the director of the Center for European Studies at the university. He has previously taught at universities in

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, Switzerland, and the

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. Kirişci received his

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at City University in

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in 1986.

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Critical studies and reviews of Kirişci's work

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kirisci, Kemal Living people Academic staff of Boğaziçi University Year of birth missing (living people)