Graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law and then completed her master's degree at Boğaziçi University on the issue of children and juvenile delinquency in the early Republican period. In 2017, she received her doctorate from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) with her thesis titled "Forced Disappearance and Forced Migration in the Context of the Kurdish Conflict: Disappearance at the Border, Mourning and Politics". She also taught various courses at different universities in Turkey. She was among the founders of the Truth Justice Memory Center (Hafıza Merkezi) and worked as the Program Director of Memory Studies until 2018. After 2018, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Paris 8 University, conducting her postdoctoral research on colonial memory regimes in Turkey and France. After working as a lecturer at Sciences PO Paris and INALCO, she was a visiting researcher at Cambridge University in 2022-2023. Since November 2023, she has been conducting a research project on political and social movements in Turkey and the diaspora at EHESS. She has published several books and articles on enforced disappearances, state violence, memory studies, gender studies, and legal anthropology. She is the author of the book "Yaramız Derindir: Hafıza Sahası ve Sömürgeci Afazi [Our Wound Is Deep: Memory Field and Colonial Aphasia]".
