CATS Fellow Sep 2026 – Aug 2027
Dr Jacopo Franceschini is a CATS Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). His PhD in International Relations from Kadir Has University focused on cybersecurity in Turkey’s health sector. He was a Mercator-IPC Fellow at the Istanbul Policy Center (IPC), where he worked on Turkey-EU digital cooperation, and a Cybersecurity Fellow at Virtual Routes. He specialises in Turkish and EU politics, cybersecurity, and AI and digital policies. At CATS, he examines AI politics in Turkey and its effects at the domestic and international levels.
Visiting Fellow Jun 2024 - Dec 2026
CATS Fellow Jun 2023 - May 2024
Dr Salim Çevik is a CATS fellow. He previously worked as CATS Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). Prior to joining to SWP, he held research or teaching positions at Lund University (Sweden), Ipek University (Turkey), Bilgi University (Turkey) and Columbia University (USA). He earned his PhD degree in Political Science from Bilkent University (2015, Turkey).
His main area of research focusses on Turkish domestic politics and Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East and Africa.
Visiting Fellow May 2025 - Dec 2026
CATS Fellow Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Nebahat Tanrıverdi Yaşar was a CATS Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Studies (SWP) in-between Mar 2022 - Jan 2023, and an IPC-Stiftung Mercator Fellow at CATS in-between 2020 and 2021. She works as a freelance researcher.
Her main research areas include Turkish foreign policy, Turkey and the North African States, Turkey's policies towards the African States, Security and defence policy, transition processes in the region. She was a researcher in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (ORSAM), a research center based in Ankara (2010-2015). Previously, she worked with PANAROMA, a foreign policy journal, FTN News Agency, and the UAE Embassy in Ankara.
Her research project at CATS examined the status of the economic, political, and social policies of Turkey and China in Africa and further explored the interactions between China and Turkey in Africa.