Cristiano Bee Cristiano Bee is Lecturer in Politics at Oxford Brookes University (UK). Previously he was an Assistant Professor at Kadir Has University, Turkey and Marie Curie Fellow at the European Institute of Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, where he was principal investigator in the research project 'The Europeanisation of the organised civil society in Turkey. The case of youth organisations in the prospect of the European integration'. He is author of Active Citizenship in Europe. Practices and Demands in the EU, Italy, Turkey and the UK (Palgrave 2017).

Ayhan Kaya is Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics of Interculturalism at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University; Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence; and a member of the Science Academy, Turkey. He received his PhD and MA degrees at the University of Warwick, UK. Some of his books are Europeanization and Tolerance in Turkey (2013); Islam, Migration and Integration: The Age of Securitization (2012).