Collaborateur scientifique

Serkan Seker est diplômé de l’École de science politique et d’administration publique de l’Université d’Ankara (Mülkiye) en Turquie. Il a ensuite obtenu un master en études européennes à l’Université d’Exeter (Royaume-Uni) en 2007. Il a exercé les fonctions de sous-préfet et de gouverneur adjoint en Turquie pendant plus de douze ans.

En 2021, il a soutenu une thèse de doctorat en science politique à l’Université d’Exeter, intitulée “Civil-Military Relations in Turkey: An Historical Study of Foundation, Tutelage, and Transformation”.

Depuis septembre 2021, Serkan Seker est chercheur postdoctoral à l’Université de Genève, et il occupe, depuis septembre 2025, le poste de collaborateur scientifique. Ses recherches portent principalement sur la corruption politique, l’éthique du leadership, l’autoritarisme et la politique turque.

Il est membre du comité exécutif et responsable de la communication et du rayonnement du Geneva Center for Corruption Studies (RCCS). Il fait également partie de l’équipe académique dirigée par la professeure Emanuela Ceva, lauréate du FNS Advanced Grant en mai 2022 pour le projet The Margins of Corruption.

Publications

2025. Islamizing Disasters: Discursive Strategies of Islamist Political Actors in Shaping Disaster Narratives in Turkey,  with Gokhan Bacik, Sociology of Islam. Advance Articles. https://brill.com/view/journals/soi/aop/article-10.1163-22131418-bja98721/article-10.1163-22131418-bja98721.xml. https://doi.org/10.1163/22131418-bja98721.

2025. “Turks versus the West”, Book Chapter, with Gokhan Bacik, In Europeanisation and Eurasianism in Turkey and Ukraine: Balancing between Integration and Autonomy, ed. Lucie Tungul, Routledge.

2025. Islamists Meet Archaeology: The Justice and Development Party’s Nascent Politics of Archaeology in Turkey”, with Gokhan Bacik, Turkish Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14683849.2025.2463990#abstract. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2025.2463990 .

2025. Framing Syrian Occupation: A Post-Structural Explanation of Making a New Turkish Foreign Policy, with Gokhan Bacik, Digest of Middle East Studies, (Under Review).

2024. “Secularism in Social and Political Contexts: Contemporary Trends, Movements, and Ideas in the Middle East”, Guest Editor with Gokhan Bacik, Special Issue, Religions. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/35392B10OI.

2023. Turks versus the West: Civilizational Populism in Turkey’s Ruling Coalition, with Gokhan Bacik, Religions 14(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14030394.

2021. “Civil-military relations in Turkey: An historical study of foundation, tutelage, and transformation”, Doctoral Thesis, University of Exeter. https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/125270?show=full.

2020. “Talat Pasha, co-founder of Turkish republic, paved the way for Mustafa Kemal in Anatolia(1)”, Interview, https://ahvalnews.com/turkey/talat-pasha-co-founder-turkish-republic-paved-way-mustafa-kemal-anatolia-historian-1.

2020. “Erdoğan a successor to Talat Pasha(2), Interview, https://ahvalnews.com/recep-tayyip-erdogan/erdogan-successor-talat-pasha-history-scholar-2”.

2019. “Defeat of the ISIS caliphate changed the Middle East forever”, Book Review, https://ahvalnews.com/book-review/defeat-isis-caliphate-changed-middle-east-forever.