Kemal Kirişci is the

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senior fellow and director of the Center on the United States and Europe's Turkey Project at

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, with an expertise in Turkish foreign policy and migration studies. Until recently, he was a

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at the Department of

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and

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Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Boğaziçi Üniversitesi''), also known as Bosphorus University, is a Public university, public research university in Istanbul, Turkey, historically tied to a former American educational insti ...

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. He holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration and is also the director of the Center for European Studies at the university. He has previously taught at universities in

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, and the

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. Kirişci received his Ph.D. at City University in

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in 1986.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kirisci, Kemal Living people Academic staff of Boğaziçi University Alumni of City, University of London Year of birth missing (living people)