Sedef Turper is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Koç University and serves as an executive board member of the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc).
Her research interests lie in migration studies and public opinion research. She mostly adopts quantitative and experimental methods to explore attitudes towards immigrants, migration policy preferences and migration aspirations. She has contributed to several edited books and her work has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Social Indicators Research, and Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, among others.