Hacer Atabaş

Hacer Atabaş

Hacer Atabaş is a PhD candidate in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University. Her dissertation focuses on the Türkiye Scholarships program as a mechanism of development assistance. She is also a TÜBİTAK doctoral fellow and a researcher at the Africa Foundation within the project “Overseas Scholarship Programs of G20 Countries and Foreign Policy Dynamics: The Cases of the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, Australia, and Turkey.” She holds a double major bachelor’s degree in Economics, Politics and Social Thought, and International Relations from Istanbul Bilgi University, as well as a master’s degree from the Atatürk Institute at Boğaziçi University.