Gözde Yilmaz is an assistant professor in Atılım University, Turkey. She completed her Ph.D. in Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BTS), Free University Berlin. She has a BA on International Relations from Hacettepe University and MA on International Studies (European Integration) from University of Birmingham.  In her Ph.D. project, she studied external Europeanization theories and Turkey’s minority rights policy and put forward an interactive theoretical framework for external Europeanization. Her further research interests are European integration, Europeanization theories, external Europeanization, EU enlargement policy, European Neighbourhood Policy, Europeanization of Turkey, EU-Turkey Relations, EU-Ukraine Relations and populism.