Gökçe Bayındır Goularas is Assistant Professor and Chair of the French Department of Political Science and International Relations at Yeditepe University, Turkey. She previously worked as a research assistant for an international think tank in Paris before obtaining her PhD, which focused on the population exchange between Greece and Turkey and the identity question of refugees. She is also Director of the Yeditepe University Research Center of Global Education and Culture (KEKAM), Turkey, and has published a number of papers and articles in Turkey, Europe, and Canada. Her fields of research particularly focus on migration, Turkish-Greek relations, culture and identity.

Işıl Zeynep Turkan İpek is Assistant Professor and Vice-Chair of the French Department of Political Science and International Relations at Yeditepe University, Turkey, where she is also Vice-Director of the Research Center of Global Education and Culture (KEKAM). She received her PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence, in 2015. Her publications include the book Chroniqueurs Politiques en Turquie (1980-2014), which was based on her PhD thesis, and her areas of interest include political sociology, electoral studies and voting behavior, political sophistication and political communication.