Sevil Atasoy
Prof. Dr. Sevil Atasoy (Hafize Hikmet Sevil Atasoy Ekinci), immediate past president of the UN International Narcotics Control Board [1][2] born in İstanbul, Turkey (February 25, 1949), is an internationally distinguished leader in the field of Forensic Sciences. Atasoy is the daughter of forensic pathologist Prof. Dr. Şemsi Gök (1921–2002) and bacteriologist Dr. Ferda Gök (1924 - 2003. She is currently the executive director of the Innocence Project (Turkey),[3] the International Forensic Science Services and Atasoy Counseling.
Sevil Atasoy has at the present time a TV show on the ChannelD network, titled Kanit (Evidence), which premiered on ChannelD, a national TV network, on July, 2010. The show has been created and is produced by Abdullah Oğuz. The series follows Istanbul criminalists as they use physical evidence to solve murders, based on true crime cases, written by Sevil Atasoy's daughter Ayça Selin Atasoy Hartevioğlu. Atasoy is also teaching at Bahçeşehir University School of Communication, on Crime Reporting.
Degrees and qualifications
Sevil Atasoy is Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (1972), Master of Science in Biochemistry (1976) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Biochemistry (1979), Istanbul University. Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences
References
- ↑ INCB biography of Sevil Atasoy
- ↑ International Narcotics Control Board elects Sevil Atasoy as President
- ↑ Masumiyet Projesi (in Turkish)