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PhD.Feyiz Erdoğan                                                                                                                                            making a speech in Turkish - American Council (ATC)
                                                                                                                                                                                                    meeting held in United States of America.  At that
                                                                                                                                                                                                    time I was also working in the committee assigned for
                                                                                                                                                                                                    defending the lawsuits filed against Turkey (against the
                                                                                                                                                                                                    state) before the European Court of Human Rights. I
                                                                                                                                                                                                    had prepared a program as to eliminate the deficiencies
          Nurol Holding Inc.                                                                                                                                                                        I have noticed in those lawsuits and as to develop
                                                                                                                                                                                                    Turkish Armed Forces in the field of human rights. We
          Senior Legal Consellor (International Law)                                                                                                                                                had applied this program, especially in troops assigned

                                                                                                                                                                                                    for  fighting  against  the  terrorism  but  generally  in
                                                                                   My main goal             “                                    20 OCTOBER 1965 SAVAŞTEPE PRIMARY SCHOOL,          whole Turkey and we had obtained successful results.
                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Chief of Staff had assigned me for explaining the
                                                                                   was to make                                                                    BALIKESİR                         results of such works in ATC and in a way to create
                                                                                                                                                                                                    public opinion in the USA. First, I made a presentation.
                                                                                   something useful                                      enrolled to Ankara Faculty of Law.   Due that my troop     The US minister responsible for human rights had also

                                                                                   for my country and                                    duty continued during this process, I did not have the     attended the meeting. We had a dialogue with him after
                                                                                                                                                                                                    his speech. In fact I had pressurized him with a few with
                                                                                                                                         opportunity to attend classes but I finished the Faculty
                                                                                                           ”                             as a military judge after the internship. Meanwhile I      the next day there was news on this subject in New York
                                                                                   people                                                of Law externally by attending to the exams only. After a   critical questions in questions and answers section but
                                                                                                                                                                                                    he could not give a satisfactory answer. I remember that
                                                                                                                                         year I was elected as a military judge and I started working


                                                                                  Your birthplace and your family?                       was accepted to a master degree program in the field       Times. Our Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors Mr.
                                                                                                                                                                                                    Oguz Çarmıklı has also been there together with some
                                                                                                                                         of Law and I was sent to USA. There I had my masters
                                                                                  I was born in 1956 in Ortaklar District                (LLM) degree in the major branch of International Law      executives from Nurol and has attended the session in
                                                                                                                                                                                                    which I made the speech. The next day we met at the
                                                                                  of Aydın, During that time my father                   in Judge Advocate General’s School, to which US military   reception. There he personally invited me to Nurol.
                                                                                  was an agriculture teacher at Ortaklar                 lawyers are sent for masters degree program and which
                                                                                  Teacher Training School. My mother                     is located within the campus of Virginia University in
                                                                                  was a housewife and a graduate of                      Charlottesville / Virginia. Then, when I was working in the
                                                                                  the Art School for Girls. We were a 4                  Legal Consultancy Department of General Staff I started
                                                                                  - person civil servant family together                 doctorate study in the field of Law in 1998, in Ankara                     VAN MILITARY LAW COURT
                                                                                  with my elder sister, who is 2 years older             University, Faculty of Social Sciences. I completed the                        COURT ROOM, 1985
                                                                                  than me. Although my father was an                     doctoral studies in 2004 when I was working in Nurol.
                                                                                  agriculture teacher, he used to attend                 Thus the school education is completed.
                                                                                  music lessons, which was almost his
                                                                                  hobby. He used to play oud and zither.                 Did you choose your ideal profession?
                                                                                  They used to gather at homes in the
                                                                                  evenings with his teacher friends for                  The military was my ideal, it was the profession of my
                                                                                  playing  classical  Turkish  music.  Those             dreams. When I learned from the newspaper that I was
                                                                                  were the times when neighborhood                       admitted to Kuleli, it was as if I was not running but
                                                                                  relations were perfect. Every weekend                  flying back home for giving this information. I attended
                                                                                  there was a movie or theatre show in                   to Kuleli despite my family’s opposition. But After Kuleli,
                                                                                  one of the nights and ballroom dancing                 all of us were sent directly to the military academy.
                                                                                  in another night.                                      Thus, the desire of attending to a university remained
                                                                                                                                         within me. Though I was also extremely successful in the

          Your Education, The schools you have attended?                                                                                 military  academy,  I  lovingly  passed  a  very  challenging
                                                                                                                                         education with success, but my interest in science and
          I was trained in Ortaklar until the 3rd grade of primary school. Then I finished primary school and secondary school           reading, especially my interest in Law made me a lawyer
          in Savaştepe due that my father was appointed to Balıkesir / Savaştepe Teacher Training School. Passing the                    at the  end. I think  they are all  my favorite and ideal
          exams I guess among the first 110 persons, I attended to Kuleli Military High School. After finishing the High school          subjects and professions.
          they transferred us directly to Turkish Military Academy in Ankara. I graduated from the Turkish Military Academy
          with Lieutenant rank, ranking 3rd of the corps of engineers, and 21st of 550 - person term. Then I attended to                 How did you meet Nurol?
          Military Engineering School (İzmir) and I completed 1 -year program here ranking 2nd of the class. Meanwhile, as               I suppose it was towards the end of February 1998. I was
          soon as I graduated from Military Engineering School, I entered into University exams and I succeeded to be                    assigned as the representative of the Chief of Staff for



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