Campus Mediation

Prof. Dr. Yeliz Bozkurt Gümrükçüoğlu was born in Istanbul in 1982. In 2005 Gümrükçüoğlu graduated from the Faculty of Law at Istanbul Kültür University, ranking second in the faculty. In 2007 Gümrükçüoğlu completed a master’s degree in the Department of Private Law at the same university’s Institute of Social Sciences, and in 2012 was awarded a doctorate in Private Law (Labour and Social Security Law), again at Istanbul Kültür University. Gümrükçüoğlu became an associate professor in 2018 and was subsequently promoted to full professor. Gümrükçüoğlu’s academic career began in 2006 with a post as research assistant at the Faculty of Law of Istanbul Kültür University, followed by service as a faculty member there from 2012 to 2017. Gümrükçüoğlu, who has also taught at Sabancı University, has continued academic work since 2017 as a faculty member in the Department of Labour and Social Security Law, Division of Private Law, Faculty of Law, Ibn Haldun University. Gümrükçüoğlu has served as principal investigator on TÜBİTAK- and BAP-funded projects and as an expert on international projects, has contributed to the work of the drafting commissions for the Code of Civil Procedure and the mediation legislation, and is actively engaged in dispute resolution, specialist mediation and arbitration.

Prof. Dr. Ali Yeşilırmak graduated from the Faculty of Law at Dokuz Eylül University in 1990. Yeşilırmak completed a master’s degree at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States in 1996, and received a doctorate in 2004 from the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, in England, with a thesis in the field of international arbitration. Having concentrated throughout an academic career on civil procedure and enforcement-bankruptcy law, alternative dispute resolution and international arbitration, Yeşilırmak attained the titles of associate professor and professor. Yeşilırmak is currently a faculty member in the Department of Civil Procedure and Enforcement-Bankruptcy Law at the Faculty of Law, Ibn Haldun University, and a visiting professor at the School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary University of London. Yeşilırmak served on the drafting commissions for the Code of Civil Procedure, the Law on Mediation in Civil Disputes and the Law on the Istanbul Arbitration Centre (ISTAC), and has acted as an arbitrator and as a court member at the ISTAC and ITO arbitration centres.

Prof. Dr. Abbas Türnüklü graduated from the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Ege University, in 1992. Türnüklü completed a master’s degree in the Department of Psychometrics at Ege University’s Institute of Social Sciences in 1995, and in 1999 received a doctorate from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom with a thesis entitled “Classroom Management in Turkish and English Primary Classrooms”. Türnüklü became an associate professor in 2005 and a professor in 2011. At Dokuz Eylül University, Türnüklü has served as dean, head of department and director of the Conflict Resolution Research and Application Centre. Türnüklü is currently a faculty member in the Department of Applied Psychology, Division of Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Dokuz Eylül University. Türnüklü has produced numerous national and international scientific publications, as well as BAP-funded and other research projects, in the fields of conflict resolution, peer mediation, negotiation and intergroup contact.