Mustafa Şen

Mustafa Şen

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University
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Mustafa Şen is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. He received his PhD in Sociology from METU with the thesis entitled “Turkish Entrepreneurs in Central Asia: The Case of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan”. His main areas of interest are sociology of religion, economic sociology and contemporary Central Asia. His current research is concerned with state-religion relations in Turkey and activities of official and non-official Turkish Islamic organizations in Europe and Central Asia.

His publications include: “Transformation of Turkish Islamism and the Rise of Justice and Development Party”, Turkish Studies, 2010, Vol.: 11, Number: 1, pp.: 59-84. “The AKP Rule and the Directorate of Religious Affairs,” in Nikos Christofis (ed.) Erdoğan’s ‘New’ Turkey: Attempted Coup D’état and the Acceleration of Political Crisis, (2020) Routledge: London and New York, pp.: 40-57. “The Case of the Alevi in Turkey and the Challenges to Liberal Multiculturalism” with Aret Karademir, Journal of Southeast European and Balkan Studies, 2021.

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