Cana Tülüş Türk has been working at Istanbul Policy Center as Research and Administrative Affairs Coordinator since January 2012. Before joining IPC, she worked at Tohum Autism Foundation. She holds a MA degree in European Studies from Sabancı University (Turkey). She received her undergraduate degree in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University (Turkey) in 2009.

Cana holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Istanbul Bilgi University, and her dissertation was on “Discussing People’s Normative Conceptions on Democracy: The Case of Turkey.” Her research focuses on political theory, comparative politics, Turkish politics, European integration, populism, and civil society in Turkey. She is a writer of Beğenmeyen Okumasin literature blog and mentor at BUMED. She is a Member of the Executive Board of Turkey Europe Foundation; Turkey Europe Future Forum 2015 Fellow; Member of the Women in Foreign Policy (Turkey), Global Diplomacy Lab, United Europe, and alumni group of the Robert Bosch Foundation. She was first year “EU Communication Volunteer” of the Turkish Ministry of EU Affairs.