Orçun Ulusoy studied law at Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir, Turkey. As a lawyer he worked on human rights related cases with a focus on asylum and migration. He was a founding member of the Association for Solidarity with Refugees in Izmir and of ‘Kayiki’, a network of Turkish and Greek human rights activists, researchers and lawyers working on asylum and migration issues. Since 2012, he is working at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands as a researcher. He is involved in several research projects focusing on migrant deaths at the borders, EU and Turkish migration policies and externalization of EU migration policies.