Prof. Dr. Gülsün Ayhan Aygörmez

Prof. (Cyprus Aydin University) Dr. iur. Gülsün Ayhan Aygörmez, LL.M. (Bielefeld), pursues academic and professional work that examines Turkish, German and European law from a comparative perspective.

Since 2004, Aygörmez has taught Turkish law in comparison with German law at the Faculty of Law of Bielefeld University, primarily in Turkish. Since 2019, she has also taught German environmental criminal law and economic criminal law in German at the University of Kassel on a periodic basis as a visiting professor and lecturer. She also conducts seminars within German–Japanese environmental-law projects.

Since 2013, she has periodically taught criminal law and criminal procedure, environmental criminal law, climate criminal law and medical criminal law at various universities in Türkiye.

Her academic education combines health sciences and law. She completed her first university degree in Nursing at Ege University in 1999 and graduated from Kırıkkale University Faculty of Law in 2003. At Bielefeld University she obtained an LL.M. in 2007 with a focus on criminal procedure and subsequently earned her Dr. iur. with a comparative criminal-law dissertation on the General Part of Turkish and German criminal law.

On 15 March 2017 she received the academic title of Associate Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure in Türkiye. In 2022 she was appointed Professor at Istanbul Gedik University.

Prof. Dr. iur. Gülsün Ayhan Aygörmez practises as a lawyer in Türkiye and is a member of the Istanbul Bar Association. She is listed in the directory of German-speaking lawyers for the jurisdiction of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Istanbul. She also serves as an expert in proceedings before Turkish courts. In Germany, she is registered with the Berlin Bar Association pursuant to sections 206 and 207 of the Federal Lawyers’ Act (BRAO). The website of GA Hukuk Bürosu in Türkiye is available here.