Sevil Atasoy

Sevil Atasoy, born in 1949, is a Turkish specialist in forensic sciences, substance abuse and addiction. She is the daughter of the forensic pathologist Semsi Gok and the bacteriologist Ferda Gok. She serves as executive director of the Innocence Project in Turkey and of International Forensic Science Services, and as Vice-Rector of Uskudar University in Istanbul, where she chairs the Crime and Violence Prevention Center. On drug policy she sits on the inter-ministerial commission for drug prevention, has represented Turkey at international meetings including the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, and chaired the International Narcotics Control Board in 2009. She has also reached a wide public through the television series Kanit, meaning Evidence, which premiered on Kanal D in 2010 and follows Istanbul criminalists as they use physical evidence to solve murders based on true cases written by her daughter Ayca Selin Atasoy.