Staff

Chief Executive
Kerim Yildiz

Deputy Director
Rachel Bernu

Acting Legal Officer
Saadiya Chaudary

Legal Associate
Saniye Karakaş
 

Turkey and Iraq Desk Officer
Mustafa Gündoğdu
 

Development Officer
Pranjali Acharya
 

Resources and Communications Co-ordinator
Michael Farquhar
 

Development and Outreach Officer
Anna Irvin

Regional Representative
Tanyel B Taysi

Assistant to the Executive Director
Janna Mancini

Finance Officer 
Kenneth Appiah-Kyeremeh
 

Administrator
Jori Knight-Jones

Boards

Honorary President

Lord Avebury

Executive Director

Kerim Yildiz

Board of Directors

Chairman

Mark Muller QC (Barrister)

Secretary

Michael Ivers (Barrister)

Treasurer

Rajesh Kumar Rai (Ecologist)

Members

Julian Ozanne (Journalist)

Gareth Peirce (Solicitor)

Ed Grieves (Barrister)

Tertia Bailey (Development Consultant)

Legal Consultant

Tim Otty QC (Barrister)

Board of Patrons

Prof. Haci Akman

Geoffrey Bindman

George Black

Hans Branscheidt

Noam Chomsky

Julie Christie

Andrew Collender QC

Nazmi Gür

Paul Hoffman

Bridget Hughes

Bianca Jagger

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC

Bruce Kent

Lord Kirkhill

Michael Mansfield QC

Ian Macdonald QC

Lord Rea

Jon Rud

Per Stadig

Willem Van Genugten

Sanar Yurdatapan

Leo Zwaak

Advisory Group

William Archer (Writer)

Meral Danış Beştaş (Lawyer)

Mesut Beştaş (Lawyer)

Ayhan Bilgen (HR Defender)

Bill Bowring (Professor)

Peter Carter QC

Louis Charalambous (Solicitor)

Louise Christian (Solicitor)

Jane Connors (Lecturer)

Julie Flint (Journalist)

Michael Gunter (Professor)

Malcolm Harper (formerly UNA)

Gillian Higgins (Barrister)

Stuart Kerr (Solicitor)

Laurence Lustgarten (Professor)

David McDowall (Writer)

Chris Milroy MD (Forensic Pathologist)

Jacqueline Muirhead (Human Resources) 

Caroline Nolan (Solicitor)

Colin Wells (Barrister)
 

Consultant on Women and Children’s Rights             

Margaret Owen (Barrister)