
Trump 2.0 – New American Protectionism and Tariffs
The aim of this report is to analyze the impact of the tariffs announced during the first four months of
Berçin Yiğitaslan was born in Balıkesir in 1988 and completed his primary and secondary education in Balıkesir. In 2011, he graduated from Bilkent University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration and completed his master's degree in American History at the same university. After starting his career at Yandex Turkey, he worked at Türkiye İş Bankası, Prime Ministry General Directorate of Press and Information and Ministry of Foreign Affairs respectively. In 2019, after leaving the Ministry of Foreign Affairs voluntarily, he worked in the fields of strategic management, corporate risk, legal compliance, ethics & code of conduct and internal audit in the humanitarian aid sector in Turkey. In 2024, Yiğitaslan worked as Deputy Chief of Private Secretariat and Protocol Manager of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and is currently the Middle East Director of a non-profit humanitarian aid organisation based abroad.
Born in 1995, Uzunırmak received her bachelor’s degree in Law from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2019 and her master’s degree in Financial Econometrics from Essex University in 2022. Uzunırmak started her professional career at Aksakallı Law Office and worked as a Researcher at the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey – TEPAV from 2023 to 2024. Uzunırmak is currently continuing her studies in finance in Vienna.
The aim of this report is to analyze the impact of the tariffs announced during the first four months of