Academic Writing

Ilker’s research has been recognized by leading academic journals in their respective fields. Click on the titles to reach the PDF copies.

• Where Is a Minority’s Popular Culture Archived? An Answer from the Jewish Community of Turkey on The Journal of Popular Culture (2021)

• Muğlak Şarkılar: 90’lar Türk Popüler Müziğinde Queer Temalar Nerede? [Queer Songs: Where to Find Queer Themes in the 1990s Turkish Popular Music?] with Sezgin İnceel on ViraVerita (2020)

• "Rosy, White, and Clean Pages of History": Jojo Eskenazi's "Moiz Plays" and the Politics of Contemporary Jewish Theatre in Turkey on Comparative Drama (2018)

• The Political behind the Fur Coat: Sabahattin Ali’s The Madonna in the Fur Coat and Leopold Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs in an Intertextual Context on Turkish-German Studies Yearbook (2017)

Ilker’s research has also been featured on edited volumes.

• “Documenting and Debating Turkey’s Loss” on Brahim El Guabli and Mostafa Hussein (eds.), Refiguring Loss: North African and Middle Eastern Literature and Film Remember Jews (Under Contract with Penn State University Press, Forthcoming 2024)

• Jews from Turkey in Israel and Cultural Diplomacy on Hazal Papuççular and Deniz Kuru (eds.), A Transnational Account of Turkish Foreign Policy, Palgrave (2020)

• Translating Translinguality in Early Turkish Republican Literature: The Case of Sabahattin Ali with David Gramling on Michelle Woods (ed.), Authorizing Translation: Literature, Theory and Translation, Routledge (2016)