Atty. Elif Özel Yücetürk
Elif completed his primary, secondary, and high school education at TED Ankara College Foundation Private High School with a dual diploma, successfully completing the International Baccalaureate program. He then graduated from Bilkent University Faculty of Law in 2015. Until 2017, he worked as a trainee lawyer and lawyer at IG&Karahan Law Firm. Between 2017-2018, he completed the International Arbitration Master's course at Hacettepe University Faculty of Law as a special student. Then, in 2018, he started his corporate career as a specialist lawyer in the Legal Consultancy of TÜRKSAT Satellite Communications Cable TV and Operation Inc.
Between 2019 and 2021, she successfully completed the Master's Program in Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Policies, and Innovation Management at Ankara University Institute of Social Sciences. For her graduation project, she wrote on the Legal Protection of Computer Programs.
In her corporate career, both in her role at TÜRKSAT A.Ş. and through external certifications, she completed the Information Law Camp Training, Contract Workshop Training, and Applied KVKK (Personal Data Protection Law) Camp Training, specializing in Contract Law, Information Law, and KVKK. Between 2021 and 2023, she served on the KVKK Commission at TÜRKSAT A.Ş. From 2021 to March 2024, she was part of the founding commission of the TÜRKSAT Orbit Internal Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation Program as an 'Innovation Ambassador.' She also completed the GDPR DPO Accreditation Training provided by TOBB Uyum.
While continuing her legal career in the corporate sector, she developed an interest in the Startup ecosystem through Information Law and began blogging and content creation related to Startup Law. Between 2020 and 2022, she delivered online 'Basic Entrepreneurship Law Training' and 'Startup Law 101' sessions to over 450 students across more than 15 universities.
Elif Özel Yücetürk, who continues to serve the Startup Ecosystem as a legal mentor at the Information Commercialization Center and Teknopark Istanbul Cube Incubation, is fluent in English and has an intermediate level of French.