About

Hello! I’m Levent, an Associate Professor at Istanbul Beykent University, the Department of Political Science and Public Administration.

My current research interest is the politicization in the Turkish senior level bureaucracy. In this framework, I focus on the fluctuations in the patronage appointments in the senior-level bureaucracy between 1983-2023 in Turkey as well as the career backgrounds of bureaucrats.

Having an educational background in political science, public administration and statistics, I am deeply enthusiastic about combining different disciplines and techniques together, namely statistics (statistical methods), public administration studies and AI together. In this manner, for instance, I try to develop algorithms and codes in both Python and R for collecting career data of bureaucrats on internet via web scrapping technique, and try to reach meaningful statistical inferences via appropriate methods.