Director of the TEPAV Migration and Diaspora Research Center (MIDI)

Prof. Dr. M. Murat Erdoğan graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Science in 1986. He received his doctorate in political science from Ankara University and his associate professorship in international relations from UAK (Inter-university Board of Turkey). Between 1987 and 2017, Erdoğan served as a faculty member at Hacettepe University (HU), and from 2017 to 2022 at the Turkish-German University (TAU). A political scientist and migration researcher, Erdoğan served as the founding director of the H.U. Migration and Politics Research Center-HUGO (2009-2017), the TAÜ Migration and Integration Research Center-TAGU (2017-2022), and the Ankara University Faculty of Political Science Migration Research Center-MUGAM (2022-2024). Erdoğan, whose academic interests include voluntary and forced migration, refugees, people of Turkish origin abroad, EU-Turkey relations, political cartoons, political behavior, and German and Turkish foreign policy, conducts comprehensive and regular public opinion surveys on the Turkish diaspora in Europe titled “Euro-Turks-Barometer” and on Syrians in Turkey titled “Syrians Barometer”.

Erdoğan serves as the Director of the TEPAV Migration and Diaspora Research Center (MIDI) from May 2026 onwards. 

Prof. Erdoğan, who completed his doctoral research in Germany as a Konrad Adenauer Foundation fellow, has conducted academic studies as a visiting researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen (2007), Humboldt University of Berlin (2010 and 2019), Oxford University (2012), and Johns Hopkins University (AICGS) (2014), and as a fellow at SWP (German Foundation for Science and Policy) CATS in Berlin (2022-2023).

Professor Erdoğan, one of the most cited academics in his field in Turkey, has numerous books, articles published in international and national journals, book chapters, and policy brief studies.

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