IV. INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING VIOLENCE CONGRESS
Head of the Congress
Prof. Dr. Oguz POLAT, M.D.
Prof. Oğuz Polat, M.D, the President of the Understanding Violence Congresses, graduated from Istanbul University School of Medicine in 1983. In 1990, he was appointed as the founding chairman of the Forensic Medicine Department of the Faculty of Medicine at Marmara University. He became an associate professor in the same year and a Professor in 1995.
He worked as a lecturer at Charing Cross Hospital in England between 1992-1993 and in 1994 at the Copenhagen Children's Rights Center. He represented Turkey at the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Children sessions. In 1997, he was the chief reporter of the Country Alternative Report. He established the Children's Rights Center at Istanbul Medical Chamber in 1998. In 2000, he was appointed as the President of Forensic Medicine Institute. After resigning in 2003, he returned to the Forensic Medicine Department of Marmara University. After his retirement in 2010, he worked at Case Western University, Mandel Social Studies Applied Unit, Begun Violence Prevention Center between 2010 and 2012.
Now, he is the founder and the Head of Forensic Medicine Department of Acıbadem University School of Medicine. He has been a lecturer in many faculties.
Organizing Committee
Prof. Dr. İrfan GÜNEY
Prof. Dr. İnci USER
Prof. Dr. Işıl PAKİŞ
Prof. Dr. Can PELİN
Doç. Dr. Fatih ARTVİNLİ
Av. Kaan Apak ALTINTOP
Apak Kerem ALTINTOP
Av. Dr. Zeynep REVA
Cem TURHAN
Psk. Betül Sümeyye KAYICI
Psk. Buket ZENGİN
Congress Secretary
Cavit KOCATEPE
Damla MEMİŞOĞLU
Dilara Ahsen ÖZKAN
Ece ÇELİK
Hilal KARAYAZI
Mahi ASLAN
Narmina ÖZMEN
Nilüfer ŞENGÜL
Nursima ORTAKÇI
Umay AKSU
Scientific Committee
Prof. Dr. Abdullah DİNÇKOL- Doğuş University
Prof. Dr. Ali Kemal YILDIZ- Turkish German University
Prof. dr. Akile Reşide GÜRSOY, Beykent University
Prof. dr. Ayşe Rodopman ARMAN, Marmara University
Prof. Dr. Bihterin DİNÇKOL- Marmara University
Prof. Dr. Bojan MATEJIC- Belgrade University
Prof. Dr. David J. BALL, Middlesex University
Prof. Dr. Ersi ABACI KALFOĞLU- İstanbul Yeniyüzyıl University
Prof. Dr. Gökhan ORAL- İstanbul University
Prof. Dr. Işıl BAŞ- Bogazici University
Prof. Dr. Işıl PAKİŞ- Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University
Prof. Dr. İnci USER- Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University
Prof. Dr. İrfan GÜNEY- Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University
Prof. Dr. Kerem DOKSAT- Beykent University
Prof. Dr. Latif ABBASOĞLU- Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University
Prof. Dr. Levent AVTAN- Istanbul University
Prof. Dr. Murat YAYLA- Dicle University
Prof. Dr. Nadi BAKIRCI- Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University
Prof. Dr. Nurcan ÖZGÜR BAKLACIOĞLU- Istanbul University
Prof. Dr. Nur CENTEL- Koç University
Prof. Dr. Oğuz POLAT- Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University
Prof. Dr. Özkan PEKTAŞ- Haliç University
Prof. Dr. Özlem YENERER ÇAKMUT- Özyeğin University
Prof. Dr. Serhat GÜRPINAR- Süleyman Demirel University
Prof. Dr. Şanda ÇALI- Cyprus Eastern Mediterranean University
Prof. Dr. Şeyda AKSEL- Ege University
Prof. Dr. Ümran TÜZÜN- İstanbul University
Prof. Dr. Yasemin ALANAY- Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University
Prof. Dr. Yener ÜNVER- Özyeğin University
Prof. Dr. Ebru ŞALCIOĞLU-Beykoz University
Prof. Dr. Vesna NİKOLOVİÇ, Belgrad University
Prof. Dr. Guardian ARTINOPOULOU, Panteion University
Prof. Dr. Virginia MORROW, University of Oxford
Assoc. Prof. Esin AKGÜL KALKAN, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Assoc. Prof. Miranda Horvath, Middlesex University
Assoc. Prof. Bosilijka DJIKANOVIC- Belgrade University
Assoc. Prof. Fatih ARTVİNLİ- Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University
Assoc. Prof. Figen DEMİR- Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University
Assoc. Prof. Lale ORTA- Istanbul Okan University
Assoc. Prof. Levent ALTINTAŞ- Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University
Assoc. Prof. Melike ŞAHİNER, Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University
Assoc. Prof. Neslim GÜVENDEĞER DOKSAT- Beykent University
Assoc. Prof. Şeyda DÜLGERLER - Ege University
Dr. Lecturer Asiye Selcan ATAÇ- Maltepe University
Dr. Lecturer Bülent İLİK- Başkent University
Dr. Lecturer Federica BIASSONI- Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Dr. Lecturer Paola TODONI- E-Campus University
Dr. Lecturer Yanko G. KOLEV- Pleven Medical University