Banu Yakubova is a senior undergraduate student in the Department of International Relations at Kadir Has University, where she is also pursuing a minor in Social Justice and Policy Studies. As part of the Erasmus+ Exchange Programme, she studied for one semester at Sciences Po Lille in France. Her main research interests include Central Asia, foreign policy analysis, security studies, international law, and human rights. She is fluent in English, Turkish, Russian, and Turkmen, and is currently studying French.