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Dede, Alper Yilmaz

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Zirve University (Gaziantep, Turkey) since the summer of 2010. Dr. Dede received his doctorate from Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI, US) with a dissertation entitled "Islamism, State Control over Religion and Social Identity: Turkey and Egypt". His research interests include Islamism, political activism, civil society, social movements and networks in the Middle East and Turkey's foreign policy on the Middle East.