Academic Staff

Research Assistant Ezgi Arslan got his Bachelor's Degree from Faculty of Law at Ankara University in 2012. She started Master's study on Public Law at Institute for Social Sciences in Ankara University in 2014 and completed with her thesis titled 'Law-Justice Relationship and the Role of the Judge in Derrida and Radbruch' in 2017. She continues her doctorate education in Ankara University Social Sciences Institute Public Law Doctorate Program, which she started in 2017. Her main areas of study are legal philosophy, sociology of law, political philosophy and human rights. She is fluent in English, German and French at beginner level.

After graduating from İzmir Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Law in 1990, Dr Esra KATIMAN completed her post-graduate education at Robert Schuman University, Faculty of Law (Strasbourg, France) in 2006 with her Master’s thesis titled "Roma cases before European Court of Human Rights" under direction of Prof. Dr. Syméon KARAGIANNIS. She started her doctorate studies in 2007 and completed these studies in 2012 with her thesis (PhD) titled "Human Trafficking as a breach of Human Rights", thus receiving the title of Doctor of International Law from the Strasbourg University (Law). Esra KATIMAN started her professional career as an attorney (1991, İzmir), and went on to work as a reporter-lawyer for the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) between 2001 and 2005. During her tenure with the ECHR, she worked in the field of Human Rights Law. During this period of time at ECHR her main subjects of work consisted of performing legal researches which required expertise in International Law, examining appeal files, providing legal consultancy services to judges, and writing Court reports and project decisions in French, one of the two official languages of the Court. Assigned to serve as expert legal advisor in scope of Human Rights Law related projects of the European Council and the European Union in Turkey between 2005 and 2007, Esra KATIMAN has participated in seminars and lectured in conferences on subjects like "Human Rights Law," "Criminal Law and Human Rights," "Terror Offences and Human Rights," "Freedom of Thought and Opinion" and "International standards for penal institutions and detention institutions" in scope of these projects. As the first lawyer from Turkey to be accepted (on 26 October 2010) to List of Counsel before the International Criminal Court (The Hague-Netherlands), Att. Dr Esra KATIMAN is still a registered lawyer on this Counsellor/Lawyer List. Even though her main field of professional and academic work consists of International Law, International Criminal Law and Human Rights Law, Dr Esra KATIMAN is also very closely interested in other branches of private law with an international aspect.

Arzu Aşçı was born in Austria in 1984. She was graduated from Gymnasium Schillerstrasse Feldkirch. She has received her Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in 2008 from Leopold Franzens University (İnnsbruck) Faculty of Law where she studied on a state scholarship. In 2008, she completed her law internship in Feldkirch Court. She has received her Ph.D in 2014 from Public Law Doctoral Program of Leopold Franzens University (İnnsbruck). She worked as an attorney in Liechtenstein Prosecution Office and Court, Chamber of Labourer, Administration of The Customs in Feldkirch/Wolfurt. She knows German language as Native language, English in advanced level and in intermediate French and Latin.

t Professor Mine Kasapoğlu Turhan got the bachelor's degree.from the Faculty of Law at Dokuz Eylul University in 2000. She worked as a research assistant between 2002-2011 at the Department of Administrative Law of Faculty of Law at Dokuz Eylul University. She completed LLM programme in public law at the same university in 2003 and her thesis subject was “Banking Regulatory and Supervisory Agency in Turkey (From the Administrative Law Perspective)”. In 2003, she started PhD Programme in public law. During the PhD programme, she carried out her research studies in consultation with Prof.Elisabeth Rynning at the Faculty of Law at Uppsala University in Sweden with the scholarship given by Swedish Institute (2007-2008). She completed PhD programme in 2010.

(Ankara, 1979) Bachelor degree: Istanbul University Faculty of Law (2001) LLM Istanbul Bilgi University Institute of Social Sciences, Human Rights Law (2004) PhD Ankara University Institute of Social Sciences, Public Law (2007) Assistant Professor (2008-2017) Associate Professor in Fiscal Law (2017-2023) Professor in Fiscal Law (2023)

He was born in 1968 in İzmir Menemen. He finished İzmir Finance Vocational High School and Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences Department of Economics. He received the master degree in economics from the University of Colorado. He received the title of doctor with the thesis titled "Disguised Profit and Disguised Capital in Multinational Companies" from the Istanbul University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Financial Law. This thesis was published in 2005 among the publications of the Ministry of Finance. His book titled “International Taxation” was published in 2014. He taught Public Finance, Money Theory and Money Policy courses at Yıldız Technical University and Hacettepe University. He teaches Financial Law courses at İzmir University of Economics. He started his career as Assistant Finance Inspector at Finance Inspectorate Board in 1989. Respectively he worked as Finance Inspector, Senior Finance Inspector, Head of Department and Assistant General Manager at General Directorate of Budget and Financial Control, and Financial Counsellor at Permanent Delegation of Turkey to the OECD (Paris). Since July 2017, He has started to work as a full-time faculty member at Faculty of Law at İzmir University of Economics. He provides consultancy for Halkbankkobi website tax department. He is working on international tax law, the effects of changes in the international tax system on the Turkish Tax System and taxation of the digital economy.