Dilek Türközü is a PhD student, who is being supervised by Prof. Kerstin von der Decken. In her doctoral thesis, she focuses on safe third country concepts in asylum law under Public International Law, EU Law and Turkish Law. Currently, she holds a scholarship from Federal State Funding for Kiel University.

Prior to her PhD study, she received her Bachelor of Laws degree with full-scholarship at Cankaya University (Ankara, Turkey) in 2016.  Thereafter, she successfully completed the LL.M Int. Program at the WSI  in 2018 (Kiel University, Germany). She also has been registered with the Ankara Bar Association as a fully-qualified lawyer in Turkey since May 2019.