
Researcher
Özlem Kurt was born in Macedonia in 1991. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in the Faculty of Pedagogy at St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje. She completed her master’s degree in Turkish Language and Literature from the Graduate School of Social Sciences at Trakya University, Edirne. Asst. Prof. Dr. Kurt received her PhD from the Turkish Language Teaching Doctorate Program in the Graduate School of Educational Sciences at Gazi University. Her studies focus on language education, particularly the teaching of Turkish as a foreign language, and she is currently continuing her research in this field. She is a team member of IBU Balkan Research Center in the area of Language and Culture.