
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, Penn State University Press (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)