Hasan Akintug

Hasan Akintug has been a doctoral student at the Centre for Nordic Studies since 2021. Hasan was educated in Winnipeg, Morphou, Ankara, Turku and Helsinki. He holds a master's degree in European and Nordic Studies from the University of Helsinki and a bachelor's degree in Political science and Public administration from Hacettepe University. He is interested in contemporary political history, regional integration, minority issues and security policy. Akintug’s doctoral project is about the external policies of the autonomous polities (Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the Åland Islands) in the Nordic region. He is also affiliated with the Åland Islands Peace Institute and is a Europaeum Scholar within the 2022-23 cohort. Read more about Hasan by clicking here.