Dr Gozde is an assistant professor at General Education Department, in the American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She obtained her PhD in the University of Manchester, Russian and East European Studies, in Manchester. She studied sociology, at the Middle East Technical University, in Ankara and studied an MA degree at the Department of History, in Central European University, in Budapest, and an MPhil at the Middle Eastern Studies, in Leiden University, Netherlands.