Gabriele Leone

Gabriele Leone is a researcher specializing in political philosophy and biopolitics, with a particular focus on Turkey’s treatment of its Kurdish minority. His Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Lapland critically examined power dynamics between the Turkish nation-state and the Kurdish population, analyzing biopolitical mechanisms with potential totalitarian implications for Turkish democracy. In 2023, he was a Junior Visiting Fellow within the “Dimensions of Europe” program in Graz, where he explored the intersections of biopolitics and national identity in Turkey. His research in that context focused on how biopolitical governance shapes narratives of national belonging and its implications for Turkey’s prospective rapprochement with the European Union on Kurdish issues. Gabriele Leone’s work contributes to broader scholarly debates on minority rights, state power, and democratic governance in Southeast Europe. For the academic year 2024-2025, he is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Studies (CSEES). In parallel, he serves as a tutor for the course “International Cooperation, Sustainability, and Peace” at the University of Calabria (UNICAL), where he continues to engage with themes of cooperation, democracy, and conflict resolution in a transnational context.