Asena Karacalti is the Afghanistan Assistant Research Manager at ACLED and has been with the organization since May 2017. Asena has previously worked as the Central Asia & the Caucasus, and Africa Research Manager at ACLED. She holds a BA in Law from Ankara University, and an MSc in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies from KU Leuven. Her research interests focus on the transit experiences of migrant and refugee populations and political violence across the Middle East and Afghanistan. She has past experience as a lawyer and as an expert in migration and asylum organizations.
Analysis of ACLED data for April on political violence and protest trends across the United…
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Last week in South Asia and Afghanistan, students of a religious school were killed in…
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Last week in South Asia and Afghanistan, Pakistani forces and the Taliban clashed along the…
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Last week in South Asia and Afghanistan, the Taliban brought in further restrictions on women’s…
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Last week in South Asia and Afghanistan, anti-Taliban groups continued to target Taliban forces in…
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Last week in South Asia and Afghanistan, the Islamic State (IS) and the Taliban continued…
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Last week in South Asia and Afghanistan, Taliban forces and the Islamic State (IS) continued…
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