I am an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Turkey. I am also a fellow of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence Center for European Studies, METU. My research interests include Europeanization of migration policies, refugees, and recently focusing more on the Syrian refugee protection and burdensharing. Currently, for the FEUTURE project (H2020), I lead the research and deliverables on the focal issue asylum. I became one of the European Marshall Memorial Fellows (EMMF) of the German Marshall Fund of the US, before becoming a fellow of the Turkey-EU Future Forum, Mercator Foundation. Outside academia, I acted as one of the founding members of Turkey’s first migration and asylum research specific NGO, IGAM and Turkey's Refugee Council while consulting on migration-related topics for various international organizations including UNHCR, Council of Europe, OSCE and UN.  At the moment, I am part of the Migration Research Excellence Cluster, Institute of European Studies, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver.

Current Project: FEUTURE
The Future of EU-Turkey Relations: Mapping Dynamics and Testing Scenarios
http://www.feuture.eu/

Recent project: PRIMO
Power and Region in a Multipolar Order
http://www.primo-itn.eu/
Phone: +903122107075
Address: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Basak Kale
Department of International Relations
Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences
Middle East Technical University
Dumlupinar Bulvari
06800 ODTU - Ankara - Turkey