Bio
Özlem Gürakar is a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. As part of the BEYOND Project (Protection without Ratification? International Refugee Law beyond States Parties to the 1951 Refugee Convention) funded by the European Research Council, her current research explores the interaction and mutual impact between the international refugee law regime and Türkiye's protection regime.
Özlem's PhD in Law is from the same place and analyses the lawfulness of returning irregular migrants by force to transit countries.
For more information, please see https://www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english/people/aca/zehraog/.