User:Aysedeniz

Ayse Deniz Lokmanoglu was born in 1986 in Adana. After completing elementary school in Mersin, she went to Ankara to study in Bilkent International School. In high school, Ayse and her 3 friends, Begum Dora, Itir Koymen and Kaan Kalipci founded the MUNESCO Conference. She than got accepted to Cornell University and graduated with a double major in Economics and Middle Eastern Studies, completing her studies in 3.5 years, a semester earlier than normal. After graduating from Cornell she interned in Council on Foreign Relations in Washington DC, as a research assistant to Dr. Steven Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies. She than began her Masters at Harvard University, specializing in Middle Eastern Studies. She graduated in 2012, with her thesis "The implications of the changes in the elementary school religious education in Turkey between the years 1980-1989", with a grade of (A-).