Yalkun Uluyol 

Yalkun Uluyol is the China researcher at Human Rights Watch. His research and publications primarily focus on China and a wide range of topics, including international political economy, foreign policy, civil and political rights, religious freedom, forced labor, and transnational repression.

 

Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Yalkun was a researcher investigating Uyghur forced labor and global supply chains at the Forced Labor Lab at Sheffield Hallam University. He was also a co-founder of the project - Uyghur Rights Monitor - leading research on government officials and entities complicit with atrocities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

 

Yalkun holds a bachelor's in economics from Istanbul University and a Ph.D. in International Relations from Koç University, where he worked as a teaching and research assistant. His Ph.D. dissertation compares Turkish and Malaysian foreign policy over the last two decades in response to the changing international order. During his Ph.D., he was a visiting research fellow at the National University of Malaysia. He is also a non-resident visiting fellow in the 2024-2025 academic year at Koç University Center for Asian Studies.