Mine Yıldırım is a scholar of human rights law and Turkey's leading expert on international protection of religious freedom.
[5] Yıldırım received her bachelor's degree in International Relations from Marmara University, Istanbul, and her master's degree in Human Rights and Civil Liberties from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.
[6] She received her PhD from Finland's Åbo Akademi University in 2015, with her dissertation titled The Collective Dimension of Freedom of Religion or Belief in International Law: The Application of Findings to the Case of Turkey.
[8] She is also a regular contributor to Forum 18 New Service[9] and independent press agency Bianet.
[10] In 2016, Yıldırım was awarded the Stefanus Prize for her struggle for human rights and freedom of religion or belief.