Neva Övünç Öztürk is a graduate of Ankara University Faculty of Law. She obtained her LL.M and PhD from Ankara University Social Sciences Institute. Her Ph.D. thesis addressed “Refugee Status Determination within the Framework of International Protection” and currently remains the only empirical study undertaken to critically evaluate the status determination process in Turkey through a comparative law perspective. Dr. Öztürk conducted a significant part of her doctorate studies at Queen Mary, University of London as a Jean Monnet scholar. She has presented papers in several international scholarly conferences and has provided trainings for various NGOs, international organizations as well as national institutions. She has taught immigration and asylum law in Ankara University Faculty of Law and Middle East Technical University. Her publications and research mainly focus on refugee law and she has been an academic member of the Private International Law Department at Ankara University Faculty of Law since 2007.
