Ayse Bingol is a lawyer and human rights defender. She has brought a number of cases before the Constitutional and Supreme Court of Turkey, as well as the European Court of Human Rights. Ayse also works with internally displaced persons in Turkey and provides pro-bono legal assistance to survivors of gender-based violence. In 2011, she obtained a LLM in Human Rights at Queen Mary University in London, UK, and obtained an undergraduate degree from the Faculty of Law at Istanbul University in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2002. In addition to her legal work, Ayse has carried out consultancy work for institutions such as Open Society Justice Initiative, Economic and Social Research Centre and Democratic Progress Institute, and is a founding member of the Peace Foundation (Baris Vakfi), which advocates for a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish question.

Participant in: November 2016 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes