Zeynep Ardıç is a member of Faculty of Law at Istanbul Medeniyet University. She holds a BA in law from Ankara University. She concluded her lawyer internship at Ankara Bar Association. She received an LLM from University of Warwick in the “International Development Law and Human Rights” program. The title of her thesis was “Decolonial Option in the North Caucasus”. She completed her PhD in February 2019 at University of Sussex with a thesis titled “Searching for Transitional Justice Mechanisms in the Kurdish Question in Turkey: addressing violations of social, economic and cultural rights”.