Rober Koptaş
Editor-In-Chief of Agos | Istanbul, Turkey Rober Koptaş was born in Istanbul and graduated from Marmara University after completing his primary and secondary education at Armenian schools. He has a master’s degree from Bosporus University Department of Modern Turkish History. He worked as editor at Aras Publishing House, which is known for its publications on […]
Dr. Levent Koker
Professor of Public Law, Atilim University Law School | Ankara, Turkey Born in Ankara in 1958, Dr. Köker graduated from Ankara University Law School in 1980. He received a master’s degree in political science from Ankara University in 1983. After having completed his doctoral dissertation in 1987, he became an assistant professor of politics in […]
Dr. Ayhan Kaya
Director of European Institute, Bilgi University | Istanbul, Turkey Dr. Kaya is a professor at Istanbul’s Bilgi University where he is director of the European Institute at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Department of International Relations. He holds the Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics of Interculturalism. He is the author of several books. […]
Özgür Sevgi Göral
Founder, Center for Truth, Justice and Memory | Istanbul, Turkey Born in Bursa in 1977, she graduated from Saint Joseph High School and received her bachelor’s degree at the Istanbul University Faculty of Law. She received her master’s degree from Bosporus University Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkey History with a thesis on juvenile delinquency and […]
Özge Genç
Program Director, TESEV Foundation | Istanbul, Turkey Özge Genç received her bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. She received her master’s degree in International Politics and Middle East Studies from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Political […]
Andrew Finkel
Journalist | ISTANBUL, TURKEY Andrew Finkel has been a journalist based in Turkey since 1989, corresponding for a variety of print and broadcast media including The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Economist, TIME, and CNN. More unusually, he has worked in the Turkish language press both in the news room and as a featured columnist […]
Willy Fautré
In addition to being director of Human Rights Without Frontiers International, Mr. Fautré is a member of the International Consortium on Law and Religious Studies. He is the former charge de mission at the Cabinet of the Belgian Parliament. For 20 years, he has defended the rights of Christian asylum-seekers from Turkey in Belgium and […]
Dr. Akyan Erdemir
His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel of France
His Eminence Metropolitan Elpidophoros of Bursa
