Il a obtenu son master à l'Institut des sciences sociales de l'Université d'Ankara. Doctorant en études politiques depuis 2018 au CETOBaC sous la direction de Hamit Bozarslan.
Sa thèse vise à analyser la réémergence de la question kurde dans le discours d'État turc pendant la période de la guerre froide. Outre la prise en compte des facteurs (mouvement Barzani au Kurdistan irakien, les mobilisations des kurdes en Europe, la politique de la guerre froide, etc.) qui ont déterminé le discours d'État turc, l’analyse se concentre principalement sur les élites turques de l'époque susmentionnée en utilisant également la recherche prosopographique.

He obtained his master's degree at Ankara University Institute of Social Sciences. PhD Candidate in Political Studies since 2018 at CETOBaC under the supervision of Hamit Bozarslan.
His thesis aims to analyse the re-emergence of the Kurdish question in Turkish state discourse during the Cold War period. Apart from taking into account the factors (Barzani Movement in Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurdish Movement in Diaspora, Cold War Politics etc.) which have shaped the Turkish state discourse, the analyses mainly focusing on the Turkish elites of the aforementioned epoch by using prosopographical research as well.

Intérêts scientifiques / Scientific interests

• Nationalisme kurde et question kurde en Turquie et au Moyen-Orient.
• Pouvoir et formation de l'État / Power and formation of the state / La formation du discours de l'État / Formation of state discourse.
• Biographie personnelle et collective / Personal and collective biography

Champs / Fields

• Études kurdes / Kurdish Studies
• Turquie contemporaine / Contemporary Turkey
• Études prosopographiques / Prosopographical studies

Publications
 

Çakmak, Yalçın & Şur, Tuncay. Osmanlı’dan Günümüze Türkiye’de Kürt Aşiretleri (Kurdish Tribes in Turkey from Ottoman Empire to Modern Turkey), İstanbul: İletişim Publishing. Forthcoming.

Şur, Tuncay. Sadakat ve İsyannın Marjları, Devletle Kürt İsyanları Arasında bir Aşiret: Bucaklar (Margins of Loyalty and Rebellion, a Tribe between the State and the Kurdish Rebellions: Bucaklar), in, Osmanlı’dan Günümüze Türkiye’de Kürt Aşiretleri (Kurdish Tribes in Turkey from Ottoman Empire to Modern Turkey), İstanbul: İletişim Publishing. Forthcoming.

Hamit Bozarslan. Tribes and Politics, (trans. Tuncay Şur), in, Osmanlı’dan Günümüze Kürt Aşiretleri (Kurdish Tribes in Turkey from Ottoman Empire to Modern Turkey), İstanbul: İletişim Publishing. Forthcoming.

Achille Mbembé. Le droit universel à la respiration (Evrensel Nefes Alma Hakkı), (traduit par Tuncay Şur), Journal of Kurdish Studies, 2020, accès en ligne
http://kurdarastirmalari.com/yazi-detay-evrensel-nefes-alma-hakk-80

Şur, Tuncay & Yarar, Betül (2020). New Wars and Their Visual Representation: Dead Bodies without Graves/Mourne. The International Visual Culture Review 2, 2020, pp. 1-18.

Şur, Tuncay (2020). Yetmişli Yıllarda Kürt Hareketi ve Devlet: Fragmantasyon ve Radikalizasyon; Rekonstrüksiyon ve Rekonsolidasyon (The Kurdish Movement and the Turkish State in the 1970s: Fragmentation       and Radicalization; Reconstruction and Reconsolidation), in, Türkiye’nin Yetmişli Yılları, ed, Mete Kaan Kaynar, İstanbul: İletişim Publishing, pp.581-607.

Şur, Tuncay (2020). Kemalizmin Re-Doktrinizasyonu: 1946-1980, (Re-Doctrinization of Kemalism: 1946-1980), Birikim Journal, Vol, 371, pp. 36-48.

Şur, Tuncay &Yarar, Betül (2019). Sıradanlaşan Savaş : Sansürden Teşhire Savaş Hakikatleri / Görselleri (Normalization of War: Through the Censorship to Exposure Visuals/ Truths of War), in, Yeni Türkiye, Hakikatsiz Siyaset, Soylu Yalan, ed, Betül Yarar, Ankara: Phoenix Publishing, pp. 255-283.

Şur,Tuncay & Atak, Seyhan (2018). Rethinking Borders: A Discussion on Vision of Borders in Democratic Confederalism, Etudes Kurde, Vol, 12, pp.103-134.

Çakmak,Yalçın & Şur, Tuncay (2018). Kürt Tarihi ve Siyasetinden Portreler  (Portraits of Kurdish history and politics), İstanbul: İletişim Publishing.

Şur, Tuncay (2018). Sait Kırmızıtoprak (Dr. Şıvan): İntrospektif Bir Düşünür ve Aksiyon İnsanı (Sait Kırmızıtoprak (Dr. Şıvan): An Introspective Thinker and Activist), in, Kürt Tarihi ve Siyasetinden Portreler, ed, Tuncay Şur & Yalçın Çakmak, İstanbul: İletişim Publishing,  pp. 247-267.

Şur, Tuncay (2018). Kürtlerin 68’i ya da 68 içinde Kürtler (Kurds in 68 Movement), Kürt Tarihi Journal, Vol, 34, pp. 18-27.

Alexandre Koyré. The Political Function of the Modern Lie (Modern Yalanın Siyasal İşlevi), (trans. Tuncay Şur), in, Yeni Türkiye, Hakikatsiz Siyaset, Soylu Yalan, ed, Betül Yarar, Ankara: Phoenix Publishing, 2018, pp. 43-58.

Şur, Tuncay (2016). Türkiye’de Legal Kürt Siyaseti, Meşriuyet Arayışı ve Dışlanma (Pro-Kurdish Legal Politics in Turkey: Searching for Participating and Systematical Denial), Ankara: Ütopya Publishing.

Şur, Tuncay (2016). Demokratik Özerklik: Bir Yurttaşlık Heterotopyası (Democratic Autonomy: A Citizenship Heterotopia), Birikim Journal, Vol, 322, pp. 82-93.

Hamit Bozaslan. Kemalism, Westernisation and Anti-liberalism (Kemalizm, Batılılaşma ve Anti-Liberalizm), (trans. Tuncay Şur), Birikim Journal, Vol, 371, 2020, pp. 48-53.

Projets collectifs / Collective projects

2014-2016: “Democracy Discourse in Election speeches of Political Party Leaders”, Scientificand Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), Research ProjectAssistant: Tuncay ŞUR.

05. 2015-11.2015: “From Dialog to Conflict, Peace Process in Turkey: Events, Dates, Failures, and Suggestions”, Centre of the Democracy Peace and Alternative Politics (DEMOS), ProjectCoordinator: Tuncay ŞUR.