İrem Çörekçi is a Shadow Participant of Karim Chalhoub. İrem Çörekçi was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1994. Until last year, she was a bachelor student in two different programs, which were Communication and International Relations Departments at Zirve University in Turkey. After the failed coup in Turkey, the government closed her University. By doing so, İrem Çörekçi had been exposed to losing her rights to education just before her senior year.
She is currently living in Sweden and got admitted at the Lund University, for a Bachelor in Development Studies and it is going to start August 2017. Last autumn, she had been admitted by Stockholm University as an intern at Institute for Turkish Studies. During her internship, she had done some research and she helped the professors with their own mostly about the Middle East, Europe and Africa. At the end of all this, she is still writing articles and stories about different topics, mostly about the situation about her country and people. However, before that she want to work for different NGOs in different countries to understand different perspectives about the world.
