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Discussant BiographiesBerlan Pars Alan, Head of Migration Department, Deputy Directorate General of MigrationAsylum Visa, Turkish Foreign MinistryBerlan began his work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the International Relations Department in 1986, and later went onto postings at the Turkish Embassies in Doha, Dusseldorf, Nairobi, Dushanbe, and Manama. He has also worked in the CulturalAffairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Second Secretary and First Secretary, and was appointed Head ofSection in 2000. In 2008 he was appointed Head of the Migration Department in September of 2008.He completed his undergraduate education at T.E.D. Ankara College in 1976, and later studied at Ankara University Faculty ofPolitical Sciences International Relations Department, and is currently working towards his Masters with a focus on Migrationissues at Istanbul University Political Sciences Faculty.Selin Unal Arslan, Head of Media Relations, International Organization for Migration(IOM)Selin Unal Arslan completed her primary, secondary, and high school education at TED Ankara College. She joined the IOMin 2004, and has been the external affairs officer of the IOM Mission to Turkey since February 2006. She has a degree intourism management from Bilkent University, and a master’s degree in gender studies from Middle East Technical University.For the past six years, she has worked primarily with the media and civil society members on public awareness activities, aswell as organizing informational campaigns on human trafficking.Elif Selen Ay, Legal Officer and Protection Assistant, United Nations High Commissionerfor RefugeesElif Selen Ay works for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as a legal officer in the Ankara and Nicosia branchoffices. She pursued her master’s degree in international human rights law at the University of Essex and earned her lawdegree from the Ankara University Faculty of Law. She worked for three years in the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as alegal adviser.Selected current work projects include projects related to the self-reliance of refugees and asylum seekers, non-refoulment andpreparing a manual for the municipalities in Marmara region to raise awareness on the importance of supporting refugeeseconomically and socially in the region.Veysel Essiz, Refugee Support and Advocacy Program, Helsinki Citizens’ AssemblyOriginally from Diyarbakir, Veysel Essiz works for the Refugee Support and Advocacy Program of Helsinki Citizens’Assembly-Turkey, the leading nongovernmental organization stakeholder in Turkey and the principal legal assistanceprovider for individuals who seek to apply for asylum protection. As a member of the program’s protection unit team, hisresponsibilities include dealing with litigation interventions before domestic courts and the European Court of Human Rightsfor cases involving arbitrary detention, denials of access to asylum procedure, and risk of imminent deportation of asylumseekers. In addition, he is the author of “National Human Rights Institutions: Other Geographies, Different Experiences,” whichprovides a comparative analysis of ten country experiences with a view to assessing their efficiency and perceived legitimacyand drawing lessons that could be useful for the Turkish context. Mr. Essiz is also co-author of the “Refugee Aid Manual forNGOs,” a detailed reference tool for nongovernmental service providers working with refugees in Turkey.His main interests are refugee law, internal displacement, anthropology of violence and gender dimensions of reparations.His publications have appeared in Open Democracy and Güncel Hukuk (Journal of Contemporary Law). He has also presentedpapers at Oxford University, Istanbul Bilgi University, and Istanbul University, contributed to various training events onhuman rights issues organized by the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey and Amnesty International. As a public speaker,he has contributed perspectives from the field at various events including: Gay Pride Istanbul, Istanbul Municipal Dialoguefor the Integration of Migrants, and the Amargi Women’s Academy.T u r k e y o n t h e M o v e : A C o u n t r y o f E m i g r a t i o n ,I m m i g r a t i o n , a n d T r a n s i t M i g r a t i o n | 21