A. Sumru Özsoy is a leading linguist and Turkish academic working at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.
Özsoy received a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Robert College in 1971.
[1] Title of her PhD thesis is "Kendi-reflexivization in Turkish: A syntactic, semantic and discourse analysis".
Then she joined Boğaziçi University in 1983 and became professor of linguistics at the Department of Western Languages and Literatures in 1994.
[4][5] She took part in the founding of the Linguistics Department of Boğaziçi University and was forced to retired in 2022 by the appointed rector Naci İnci who has close relations with AK Parti.