European Union and Turkish Footwear Industry: A Case of Top-Down Europeanization?

Firdevs Deniz Erdoğan

F. Deniz Erdoğan was born in 1968 in Bursa, a city located in northwest of Turkey. She is a very successful independent shoe entrepreneur and founder of a Turkish brand shoe enterprise called 'Oi Arte' including a beauty salon 'Barbizon'. She recently earned her MA degree in International Relations from the Middle East Technical University, the premier and top university of Turkey, in 2013. She also attended a summer school on political philosophy at Yale University in 2000. Before becoming a businesswoman, she was a researcher at the European Research and Implementation Center in Ankara University in 1991. She earned her business degree from Uludağ University in 1989, and went to American High School in Belgium (1979-82) and Atatürk Anatolian High School in Ankara (1982-85) for secondary education.