Yasemin Kaya ve Utku Özer

Yasemin Kaya: She completed her undergraduate degree in economics at ODTÜ (Middle East Technical University, in Ankara) and her master’s degree at Boston University. In the past she wrote on macroeconomics, the financial sector and economic policy; today she keeps up her connection with the field through her professional working life. Since 2023 she has been writing about literature, publishing and reading culture. She lives in Istanbul. Utku Özer: Born in Istanbul in 1982, he received his undergraduate degree from the Department of International Relations at Istanbul University. In 2006 he completed his master’s degree in International Relations at Marmara University, with a thesis on the dynamics of nation-building in the post-Soviet period. He received his doctorate from Istanbul University in 2012 for a study titled “İmparatorlukların çözülmesi ve yeniden biçimlendirilmesinde milliyetçiliğin rolü: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Rus Çarlığı örnekleri” (The role of nationalism in the dissolution and reshaping of empires: the cases of the Ottoman Empire and Tsarist Russia). From 2009 to 2012 Özer worked as a research assistant in the Department of International Relations and European Union at Maltepe University, and from 2012 to 2015 he continued his academic work at the same university as an assistant professor. In 2016 he moved to Greece to pursue postdoctoral research; he still lives in Athens and continues his work at the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER).