Selin Yanık Koç is a PhD student at the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on the nexus of media and political behavior, information operations, and election interference.
She received her Bachelor’s Degrees from Cankaya University, double majoring in English Language and Literature, and Political Science and International Relations departments. In her final year, she studied at Valencia University for one semester via the Erasmus Exchange program. She completed International Relations MA program at TOBB Economy and Technology University with a thesis concentrating on media representations of Turkey’s military operations in Syria in 2021. Recently, she graduated from Boston University’s MA in International Affairs – Security Studies program deepening her research further on information operations and election interference.
She can speak Turkish, English and Spanish, and can read French.
AND TÜRKİYE ELECTIONS If you don’t pay for a product, you are the product In the 2016 US election that brought Trump to power, Russian intelligence agencies used social media as a weapon to infl...