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Zeynep Yalçıntaş

Zeynep Yalçıntaş

She graduated from the Department of Sociology at Boğaziçi University in 2020. She then completed her master’s degree in Applied Developmental Psychology at Özyeğin University on a scholarship, graduating in 2023. In her thesis, she explored the relationship between different family dynamics and children's emotional development.

During her undergraduate and graduate studies, she worked part-time as a teaching and research assistant. She is currently continuing her work as a Research Assistant at EPAM (Center for Social Thought and Research) under the ILKE Foundation.


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