Fazıla Mat is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Victoria in the faculty of Political Science under the supervision of Dr. Oliver Schmidtke. Fazıla holds an MA degree in Humanities from the University of Milan and she has worked for over ten years as a journalist and commentator for Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa and other Italian and Swiss media, covering Turkish politics, EU-Turkey relations, issues concerning migration and civil society. For OBC Transeuropa she also carried out research and policy analyses on the EU-Turkey refugee deal (2017, for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation ); media freedom in Turkey (2014 and 2018 – within EU funded projects) and academic freedom in Turkey (2018). Since 2019 she has been participating in research projects focusing in Italy, studying the funding of political parties (2019) and the relations between civil society and politics (2021). Her research interests include populism, democracy, authoritarianism, media freedom, migration and EU-Turkey relations.
Research Interests: Populism, Democracy, Migration, Media Freedom and EU-Turkey relations
| Institution: | University of Victoria |
| Fields of Expertise: | Democracy and Political Participation EU Foreign Policy and External Relations Migration Populism |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism,Memory Politics,RG ECSA-C Democracy,The ECSA-C members |
| Email: | mat.fazila@gmail.com |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, Italian, Turkish |
| Publications: | Mat, Fazila (2021), Exclusion through Public Discourse: Media representations of Syrian Refugees in Turkey, Policy Memo, European Community Studies Association Mat, Fazila (2020), "Media in Turkey: a testing ground of censorship and control" (with S. Verza), in European Journalism Observatory and OBC Transeuropa Mat, Fazila (2019) "The Funding of Politics in Italy" (with N. Caranti), in OBC Transeuropa Mat, Fazila (2019) "Media Freedom in Turkey" (with V. Vivona), in OBC Transeuropa Mat, Fazila (2018) "La Nuova Turchia di Erdoğan. Dinamiche di un’involuzione autoritaria”, in Rivista il Mulino. Mat, Fazila (2018) "Special Dossier on Disinformation" (with N. Caranti), in OBC Transeuropa Mat, Fazila (2017), "L’implementazione dell’accordo UE-Turchia. Gli effetti sull’accoglienza", in OBC Transeuropa |
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