Titles
- Dr. Mine Yildiz
- Coordinator Middle East
Biography
Dr. Mine Yildiz is a political scientist, researcher, and Senior Associate Fellow at the Brussels School of Governance (BSoG), Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Hacettepe University, Ankara, with a dissertation entitled Comparative Analysis of Parliamentary Assistants in the Turkish Parliament. She served as a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Başkent University, where she taught Communication and Politics.
Alongside her academic career, Dr. Yildiz served for eighteen years as a parliamentary assistant to eight Members of Parliament from Turkey’s social democratic parties, the Democratic Left Party (DSP) and the Republican People’s Party (CHP), in the Turkish Parliament. She has been active as a freelance journalist, contributing to Turkish and European media outlets, and remains a regular contributor to BirGün.
Since joining Vrije Universiteit Brussel as a visiting researcher in 2018, Dr. Yildiz has become a Senior Associate Fellow at the Brussels School of Governance. Her research, From Migration to Politics: The Parliamentary Journey of Belgian Turks, focuses on political participation and representation. She is also a co-author of the chapter “COVID-19 in the Middle East: Development, Challenges, Conclusions and Policy Recommendations” in the BDA publication After the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Will the World Change?
In recognition of her contributions, Dr. Yildiz received the European International Women’s Leadership Award at the European Parliament in 2019 and the European Turkish Women Ambassadors Award in 2024.
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