Mgr. Karolína Lahučká, Ph.D. graduated in Political Science and Turkology with special focus on international relations at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. She completed her Ph.D. in the Middle Eastern Studies program at the same faculty. Her dissertation research focused on the modern history of Turkey, particularly the politics of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Her research focuses on Turkey’s current domestic, foreign, and security policies, as well as the transformation of Turkish national identity. In 2019, she completed a research fellowship at the Asien-Afrika-Institut at the University of Hamburg. Outside the university, she works as an analyst at the Research Center of the Association for International Affairs (AMO), specializing in Turkey, and collaborates with Czech media and state institutions on analyses of Turkish political developments and Turkish foreign policy. At the department, she teaches courses on the history of the Republic of Turkey and Turkey’s domestic and foreign policy.

Contact information: karolina.lahucka@ff.cuni.cz