Welcome,

I am a junior scholar of International Relations at Kastamonu University located in Kastamonu, Türkiye. I received a doctorate in political science with two majors, International Relations and Comparative Politics in 2021 from the University of Cincinnati, which was supported by the Turkish Educational Ministry and the University of Cincinnati.

My dissertation, which draws upon international political economy and entailed fieldwork, entitled "China's Development Model as Internal Colonialism: The Case of the Uyghurs," focused on Uyghurs and China, and was supported in part during my time as a Dissertation Fellow at the TAFT Research Center, 2018-2019. In my current work, I am interested in transnational authoritarianism, cyber security, immigration and gender, which builds on my dissertation as I focus on Uyghurs, diaspora and China's oppression of minorities. I have in-progress and under-review works such as an article on global Uyghur resistances against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and projects related to Uyghur reproductive justice and social reproduction. I am revising my dissertation into a book and have a forthcoming chapter in Critical Perspectives on Cybersecurity on digital transnational authoritarianism perpetrated by the CCP against Uyghurs. 

Recently I was awarded 2022 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for an ongoing project with Dr. Crystal Whetstone. 

You can reach me at yilmazmurat@kastamonu.edu.tr or yilmazmurat@outlook.com

YÖK Akademik ID: 358503

ORCID: 0000-0002-4610-9218