Announcements, workshops, fieldwork updates and milestones from the COUNSTER project.
COUNSTER project's postdoctoral fellow, Yusuf Evirgen, presented his research titled "From Reports to Data: Harnessing LLMs for Fine-Grained Human Rights Data Collection" at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA),…
Read more →COUNSTER Project's Principal Investigator Efe Tokdemir and his co-authors Aslı Cansunar and Arzu Kıbrıs have won the APSA MENA Section's Best Paper Award for 2025 with their paper titled "Ethnic cues and conflict-triggered harassment:…
Read more →On 3 July 2026, Yusuf Evirgen, a postdoctoral researcher on the COUNSTER project, presented the project's master plan to the team. The presentation, titled “GovConReD Project Plan,” outlined how the team will grow its…
Read more →On June 9, 2026, Efe Tokdemir shared his experience with the ERC grant application process at the "Navigating ERC Funding: Insights for Researchers" event. The event hosted researchers from various institutions, led by Bilkent…
Read more →Efe Tokdemir presented the COUNSTER project at the Istanbul Policy Center on 13 March 2026, in a talk titled “Countering Insurgency/Terrorism: Severing the Ties Between Non-State Armed Actors & Their Constituency.” The session, held…
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