Sehlikoglu's Media Appearances

2015. “New Sports Uniforms Level Playing Field for Muslim Girls” Interviewed by Jeff Baenen from Associated Press as an expert. Reprinted in, among others, Huffington Post, New York Times, and Daily Mail, July 1. https://apnews.com/3c170781841044779758f082cdd07742/new-sports-uniforms-level-playing-field-muslim-girls

2014. “Hiç Utanması Yok, Koskoca Kadın, Top gibi Zıp Zıp” Interviewed by Melis Kurultay from the independent feminist media 5Harfliler, October 27. http://www.5harfliler.com/hic-utanmasi-yok-koskoca-kadin-top-gibi-zip-zip

2013. “The challenges of Muslim women in the world of sports” Extensive interview by Ilaria Bortot as an expert at Frontiere News (Italy), January 12. http://frontierenews.it/2013/01/la-sfida-delle-donne-musulmane-nel-mondo-dello-sport/

2012. “Honour, Rape and the Right to Abortion”, Stream-Interviewed by Al Jazeera English, September 14. http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201209132107-0022339

2012. “Celebrating Female Muslim Athletes: The Out of Towners” Quoted extensively as an expert in Arwa Aburawa’s article on the media’s unhealthy focus on hijab-wearing athletes at Majalla Magazine, August 16.  http://eng.majalla.com/2012/08/article55233592/celebrating-female-muslim-athletes " However as Sertaç Sehlikoglu who explores   Muslim women’s role in sports   at the University of Cambridge explains, the recent focus on female Muslim athletes wearing the hijab means that the achievements of non-hijab wearing Muslim athletes are often neglected. And yet, it is with these non-hijab wearing Muslim athletes that the legacy of Muslim women at the Olympics begins. “Historically, Muslim women without the hijab have been involved in international games for much longer than those who do wear some form of the hijab,” explains Sertaç Sehlikoglu. “Suat Aşeni and Halet Çambel were the first Muslim women at the Olympics and they represented Turkey at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

2012. “Femisphere: Sports bloggers with a gender lens: Sertac Sehlikoglu” Profiled by Avital Norman Nathman at MS Magazine, August 31. http://msmagazine.com/blog/2012/08/31/femisphere-sports-bloggers-with-a-gender-lens/

2012. “Arab women and sporting legacy: What impact will the Games have on the sporting chances of Arab women?” Studio guest of “Woman’s Hour” at BBC 4, August 14.

2012. “With Every Country Entering Female Athletes in 2012, are These the Women’s Games?” Studio guest of “World Have Your Say” at BBC World Service, July 30.