Education
Yurdakul became known for her work on the relations between Jews and Turks in Germany, which she completed as a part of her post-doctoral research at the Free University of Berlin (2009).
Yurdakul became known for her work on the relations between Jews and Turks in Germany, which she completed as a part of her post-doctoral research at the Free University of Berlin (2009).
Her work focuses on issues relating to immigration, citizenship, anti-racism, and gender. She has published several books and articles, most notably about the Turkish immigrant community in Germany and debates about citizenship, social inclusion, gender and minority rights. In her work, she analyses how political leaders of Turkish immigrant communities take Jewish trope as a model to build themselves as a minority in Germany.
This book is forthcoming in German in 2016.