Dr Ilker is an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, in the American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
He obtained his PhD in Central European University, Budapest, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology (Summa cum laude). He studied Business Administration at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, in Bogazici University, Istanbul. He has published some book chapters as “An Ethnographic Account of the Compulsory Public Service of Doctors in Hakkari: The Limits of the AKP Assimilation Strategy and the Production of Space.” In The Kurdish Issue in Turkey, and he has written some articles as  “From Almus to Küçükarmutlu: An Ethnographic Study of the Rural and Sub-Urban Space in Relation to State and Market Intrusions.” The Graduate Journal of Historical Studies in Turkey, and book reviews as “An Anthropological Economy of Debt” (ed. Bernard Hours and Pepita Ould Ahmed), Anthropological Notebooks 22.