Författare: Coskun Usterci

Özgür Heval Çinar is a lawyer. Currently he is a Ph.D. candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Law Department at the University of Essex. He has also worked at several NGOs, including the Istanbul branch of the Human Rights Association of Turkey and Human Rights Watch on a voluntary basis. He is the author of ”The Effects of European Court of Human Rights” Decisions on the Turkish Legal System” as well as a number of journal articles. Coskun Üsterci is a peace and human rights activist. Graduatign from the Department of Economic and Commercial Science at the Ege University, he was a founder of the Izmir War Resisters” Association. He is currently a member of the Human Rights Association, and has been working since 1992 at the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, where he is a board member. In addition, he runs workshops on anti-militarism, conscientious objection and non-violence.