His research interests include nationalism and ethnicity in the Ottoman Empire as well as the origins and development of Kurdish 'nationalism'. He holds an undergraduate degree in History and Politics from SOAS (2004), a M.Sc. in Ethnicity and Nationalism from the London School of Economics (2006), a M.A. in History from Istanbul Bilgi University (2009), and a D.Phil. in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford (2015).