What is Merve Kavakçı?
{{Infobox person | name = Merve Safa Kavakçı | image = Merve Kavakcı (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = August 19, 1968 | birth_place = [[Ankara]], [[Turkey]] | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | other_names = | education = M.Sc. from [[Harvard University]] PhD from [[Howard University]] | employer = [[Uskudar University]] [[George Washington University]] [[Howard University]] | occupation = [[Uskudar University]], Associate Professor | home_town = | title = | salary = | networth = | height = | weight = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = 2 | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = http://www.mervekavakci.net | footnotes = }} '''Merve Safa Kavakçı''' (born 19 August 1968, [[Ankara]]) is [[Turkey|Turkish]] politician, who was elected as a [https://www.turkeytrips.org Virtue Party] deputy for [[Istanbul]] on April 18, 1999. ==Works== Kavakci is the Director of Postcolonial Studies Research Center (PAMER) at Uskudar University.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pamer.org/en/sayfa/boards|title=Head, Board|author=PAMER|access-date=29 April 2016|archive-date=27 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151127040323/https://www.pamer.org/en/sayfa/boards|url-status=dead}}</ref> She is also an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uskudar.edu.tr/en/sayfa/250/academic-staff|title=Academics - Academic Staff|author=Uskudar University|access-date=29 April 2016}}</ref> Kavakçı is a [[Hafiz (Quran)|Hafiz-al Qur'an]].