Selected Legal Work & Public Contributions
This section presents a curated selection of public legal work, reports, case-related analysis, fact-finding missions, accountability initiatives, trainings and public legal contributions developed across human rights and rule of law contexts.
It is not a full archive, institutional record or CV. The selection focuses on work connected to fair trial rights, freedom of expression, international legal solidarity, politically sensitive proceedings, accountability processes and the protection of lawyers, journalists and human rights defenders.
Where work involved confidential legal opinions, case assessments or advisory input, this section refers only to the general nature of the work and does not identify confidential cases, legal strategies or non-public materials.
Legal Reports, Case Analysis & Expert Opinions
This section presents selected public legal work and reflects areas in which legal reports, case-related analysis and expert opinions are prepared for lawyers, legal teams and organisations. The listed work includes public reports, indictment reviews, fair trial analyses, legal commentary and case-related legal assessments. In addition, expert opinions, country/context reports and legal assessments are prepared in asylum, fair trial, freedom of expression and rights-based proceedings across European jurisdictions Confidential matters, individual case details and legal strategies are not listed. The emphasis is on legal analysis, documentation, procedural safeguards, human rights standards and the structural conditions affecting access to justice.
2026 — “Fifty Years Under Occupation: Human Rights Violations, Settler-Colonial Transformation, and the Absence of International Monitoring in Western Sahara”
ELDH / co-author with Urko Aiartza
Legal and human rights report based on an ELDH fact-finding mission, concerning human rights violations, structural restrictions, demographic transformation, occupation-related concerns and the absence of international monitoring in Western Sahara.
https://eldh.eu/en/2026/07/eldh-report-western-sahara-50-years-under-occupation/
2020–2025 — PEN Norway Turkey Indictment Project: Final Reports
PEN Norway / legal adviser, author, co-editor and report supervisor
Cumulative legal assessment reports on indictment practice in Türkiye, focusing on prosecutorial reasoning, freedom of expression, fair trial guarantees and the criminalisation of journalists, writers and political defendants.
Links: 2020 Final Report | 2021 Final Report | 2025 Final Report
2024 — Expert Opinion on İlhan Sami Çomak
PEN Norway / legal expert opinion
Independent expert opinion on the rejection of İlhan Sami Çomak’s conditional release request, addressing conditional release, procedural fairness and relevant human rights standards.
https://norskpen.no/nyheter/pen-norways-expert-opinion-on-ilhan-sami-comak/
2023 — “Guidelines on Indictment Writing for Prosecutors in Turkey”
PEN Norway
Guidelines addressing indictment standards, prosecutorial reasoning, fair trial guarantees and procedural safeguards.
https://eldh.eu/en/ueber-ejdm/publications/
2022 — Monitoring Gezi
PEN Norway / co-editor and legal contributor
Trial monitoring and legal analysis concerning the Gezi proceedings, fair trial rights and the implementation of European human rights standards. The publication also includes Uysal’s essay “Gezi Parkı Eylemleri: Nefes, Onur, Düş, Umut” and her summary of the ECtHR’s Kavala judgment.
https://eldh.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/PEN_Norway_Monitoring_Gezi_eng1.pdf
2019 — “Access to Justice in Turkey? A Review of the State of Emergency Inquiry Commission”
Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project / Middlesex University School of Law / co-author with Sanya Karakaş and Philip Leach
Legal analysis of access to justice, state of emergency measures, domestic remedies and the State of Emergency Inquiry Commission.
