Sylvia Tiryaki is a scholar, lawyer specialized in the fields of Human Rights and International Public Law and European Law, active member of civil society, and current Chairwoman of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Slovakia.
With a specialization on the Middle East and Turkey, she was an advisor for the Slovak Minister for Foreign Affairs.
[4] Currently, she is an assistant professor at the Pan-European University, the institute of international and European law.
During her academic and professional career in Turkey, she held the position of Vice-chair of the International Department of Istanbul Kültür University.
[1] Between 2003 and 2008, she was a senior research fellow and coordinated a series of Cyprus projects at the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), Foreign Policy Program.