Omar Kadkoy coordinates the Foreign Policy, Security, and Migration Program at Heinrich Böll Stiftung Istanbul Office, shaping policy dialogue with Turkish and EU actors. With a decade of project management and research experience, his work intersects international relations and migration governance, especially with the case of Syrians in Türkiye. Formerly at the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Türkiye (TEPAV), he managed EU-funded foreign policy projects (e.g., Turkey-Armenia Normalization Process) and migration (e.g., Social Equality for Forced Migrants: The Role of Local Governments and NGOs in the Pandemic). Omar speaks Arabic, English and Turkish, and holds a master’s degree in International Relations from the Middle East Technical University, where his thesis examined naturalization perceptions of Syrian students in Turkey’s tertiary education.
