She completed her undergraduate education in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University in Turkey. She earned her master’s in European Union Studies in the Department of International Relations at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She carried out her academic studies on European Union, and focused on European Union’s competences on migration and Common European Asylum System in her thesis. She has been working at Marmara Municipalities Union since 2015. She is currently International Cooperation Coordinator and Director of Migration Policy Center at Marmara Municipalities Union. Her areas of interest are international relations, local diplomacy, migration, asylum, social inclusion, and local governments.