Sevil Atasoy
Sevil Atasoy is an internationally distinguished leader in the field of Forensic Sciences, substance abuse and addiction. She is the former president of the UN International Narcotics Control Board. Atasoy is the daughter of forensic pathologist Prof. Dr. Şemsi Gök and bacteriologist Dr. Ferda Gök. She is currently the executive director of the , the International Forensic Science Services, Vice-Rector of Üsküdar University, Istanbul, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and chairs the Crime & Violence Prevention Center.
She serves as a member at the Inter-ministerial Commission for Drug Prevention, represented several times Turkey at international meetings including the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
Sevil Atasoy has a TV show on the TV2 network, titled Kanıt, which premiered on Kanal D, a national TV network, on July, 2010. The show was created and produced by Abdullah Oğuz. The series follows Istanbul criminalists as they use physical evidence to solve murders, based on true crime cases, written by Sevil Atasoy's daughter Ayça Selin Atasoy Hartevioğlu.
