Ali Yildiz
Turkish law expert. INTERPOL matters and personal data protection.
- Focus
- INTERPOL matters
- Protection of personal data
- Turkish law
- Admitted
- Ankara Bar (since 2004)
- Brussels Bar (since 2020)
- Based in
- Brussels
- Languages
- Turkish
- English
- Dutch (basic)
- Education
- LL.M. in International and European Law — Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- LL.B. — Ankara University
- Recognition
- Finalist, Lawyers for Lawyers Award (2019)
- Legal Experts Advisory Panel, Fair Trials (since 2021)
Ali Yildiz has practiced law since 2004 and is a member of both the Ankara and Brussels Bar Associations. He earned his LL.B. from the University of Ankara and an LL.M. in International and European Law at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where his studies included European data protection law. He is fluent in Turkish, proficient in English and has a basic understanding of Dutch.
He was a finalist for the Lawyers for Lawyers Award in 2019, and in 2021 he joined the Legal Experts Advisory Panel of Fair Trials, a European civil society organization focused on criminal justice and human rights.
Ali writes regularly for Verfassungsblog, Just Security and the International Association of Constitutional Law, and often comments for international media, including the Wall Street Journal, Al-Monitor, Balkan Insight, Turkish Minute, Ahval, Free Turkish Press and The National.
Based in Brussels, where he founded Ali Yildiz Legal, he works with Merit Law LLP as an expert attorney on INTERPOL matters and the protection of personal data, including data-deletion requests before INTERPOL’s Commission for the Control of Files (CCF).
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