Ayşe Zarakol is a Turkish political scientist and academic. She serves as a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. Zarakol’s research concentrates on contemporary Turkish politics, nationalism, secularism, and the interaction between state institutions and Islamist movements. She has contributed scholarly articles to peer‑reviewed journals addressing subjects such as the politics of identity in Turkey, the role of religion in public life, and the dynamics of political authority in the Middle East. Her work is widely cited in studies of Turkish political development and comparative political theory.
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