Prof. Dr., Attorney at Law M. Tevfik Odman

About

He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in criminal law, criminal procedure and international law at Çağ University Faculty of Law. Based in Adana, he has provided legal representation and advice to individual and corporate clients for more than fifteen years in criminal law, criminal procedure, refugee law and military offences. His work includes preparing defences, regional appeals, appeals to the Court of Cassation, individual applications to the Constitutional Court and expert legal opinions.

Biography

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Tevfik Odman

  • Place and date of birth: Istanbul, 28 July 1945.
  • Secondary education: Istanbul Vefa High School.
  • Undergraduate education: Istanbul University Faculty of Law, February 1970.
  • Postgraduate education: Private Law, Ankara University Institute of Social Sciences, 14 June 1979.
  • Doctorate: Public Law, Ankara University Institute of Social Sciences, 8 June 1990.
  • Passed the central foreign-language examination for associate professorship in November 1993.
  • Associate Professor of Public International Law, Ankara University, 2 October 1996.
  • Professor of Public International Law, 24 June 2002.
  • Faculty member, Çağ University Faculty of Law, 2001–2006 and from 2007 onwards.
  • Lecturer in criminal procedure, special criminal law and private international law.
  • Head of the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law.
  • Member of the Adana Bar since 2006.
  • Foreign language: English.

Judicial and Administrative Positions

  • 1971–1972: Disciplinary Officer, Military Engineering School.
  • 1972–1974: Military Court Judge, Black Sea Regional Command.
  • 1974–1978: Military Court Judge, Çanakkale Strait Command.
  • 1978–1980: Branch Director, Department of Laws and Decisions, Ministry of National Defence.
  • 1980–1983: Private Law Specialist, Legal Affairs and Laws and Decisions Directorate, National Security Council.
  • 1983–1990: Private Law Specialist, General Secretariat of the Presidency.
  • 1990–1991: Deputy Head, Department of Laws and Decisions, Ministry of National Defence.
  • 1991–2000: Member of the Fifth Chamber, Military Court of Cassation.
  • 2000–2001: President of the Fifth Chamber, Military Court of Cassation.
  • 2 October 2001–2005: Vice Dean, Çağ University Faculty of Law.
  • 1 July 2002–16 December 2006: Vice Rector, Çağ University.

Publications

Books

  1. The Question of the Breadth of Territorial Waters (doctoral thesis), Naval Forces Command, Ankara, 1990.
  2. Refugee Law, with the support of the European Commission, Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences Human Rights Centre Publications No. 15, Ankara, 1995.
  3. Women Refugees, with the support of the European Commission, Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences Human Rights Centre Publications No. 19, Ankara, 1996.
  4. Settlement of International Disputes through Non-Judicial Peaceful Methods and Peace Support Operations, Çağ University Publications No. 9, Faculty of Law Publications No. 5, Adana, 2008.
  5. Refugee Children in the Context of Children's Rights, Çağ University, Faculty of Law Publications, Adana, 2008.
  6. The Legal Status of Stateless Persons and Turkish Law, Çağ University Publications No. 15, Faculty of Law Publications No. 7, first edition, January 2011.
  7. Sexual Violence in the Context of Violence against Women, Çağ University, Faculty of Law Publications, December 2016.
  8. Men Are Also Victims of Violence, Karahan Publications, Adana, November 2017.
  9. Refugee Law Updated in the Course of Historical Development: The Development of Asylum Worldwide and in Türkiye, Yetkin Publications, Ankara, 2020.
  10. Traumatised Children: Child Abuse and Neglect within the Family, Yetkin Publications, Ankara, 2021.

Articles and Conference Papers

  1. “The Applicability in Military Justice of the Right to Counsel Regulated by the Code of Criminal Procedure”, Symposium for the 80th Anniversary of the Military Court of Cassation, 6–7 April 1994, Ankara; Military Justice Journal, year 22, issue 90, May 1994.
  2. “The Right of Peoples to Determine Their Own Future: Self-Determination”, Armed Forces Journal, year 113, issue 341, Ankara, July 1994.
  3. “The Airspace Dispute in the Aegean Sea”, Armed Forces Journal, year 113, issue 342, Ankara, October 1994.
  4. “The Turkish-Greek Impasse: The Breadth of Territorial Waters in the Aegean Sea”, Armed Forces Journal, year 114, issue 343, Ankara, January 1995.
  5. “The Problem of Using Unlawfully Obtained Evidence”, Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences Human Rights Centre Journal, volume III, issue 5, December 1995.
  6. “The Offence of Discouraging Military Service in the Context of Freedom of Expression”, Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences Human Rights Centre Journal, volume III, issue 5, December 1995.
  7. “Decisions of the Military Court of Cassation on Unlawful Evidence”, Symposium on Unlawful Evidence, organised by Marmara University Rectorate and the Istanbul Bar, 10–12 March 1995, Istanbul; Military Justice Journal, year 24, issue 95, Ankara, January 1995.
  8. “The Problem of Using Unlawfully Obtained Evidence”, Symposium on Exclusionary Rules, organised by Dokuz Eylül University Rectorate and the İzmir Bar, 2 June 1995, İzmir; Faculty of Political Sciences Human Rights Centre Journal, volume III, issue 4, Ankara, November 1995.
  9. “A New Concept in NATO: Partnership for Peace”, Armed Forces Journal, year 114, issue 347, Ankara, January 1996.
  10. “The Establishment and Legal Basis of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia”, Ankara University Faculty of Law Journal, year 1996, volume 40, issues 1–4, Ankara, 1998.
  11. “The Definition of a Refugee in National Law”, Umuda Doğru, Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants, year 2, issue 4, Ankara, January–February 1998.
  12. “Members of the Armed Forces of a Belligerent Party Seeking Refuge in a Neutral Country and the First Example in Turkish Practice”, Naval Forces Journal, issue 573, Ankara, November 1998.
  13. “Asylum, Extradition and Terrorist Offenders”, Symposium for the 85th Anniversary of the Military Court of Cassation, 6–7 June 1999, Ankara; Military Court of Cassation Journal, 1999.
  14. Paper presented at the seminar on “International Law of Refugees Control” for Turkish and foreign armed forces personnel, 4–6 October 1999, Turkish Armed Forces Partnership for Peace Training Centre; published internally by the Centre.
  15. Paper presented at the seminar on “International Arrangements on Asylum Seekers and Refugees” for Turkish and foreign armed forces personnel, 6–10 December 1999; published internally by the Partnership for Peace Training Centre.
  16. “Offences and Refugee Status”, Criminal Law Reform Symposium organised by the Istanbul Goethe Institute, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Marmara University Faculty of Law, University of Kansas School of Law and Yeditepe University Faculty of Law, 20–23 October 1999, Istanbul; Umut Foundation Publications, Istanbul, 2001.
  17. Two papers, “Civil-Military Cooperation and the Role of the Gendarmerie” and “Gender in Refugee Law”, presented at the General Directorate of Security training seminar for officers assigned to its Foreigners, Passport, Border and Asylum Department and provincial Foreigners and Passport Branches, 11–14 April 2000.
  18. “Refugee Law and Its Application”, paper presented at the seminar jointly organised by the Ministry of Justice and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2–5 May 2000.
  19. Participation in work on refugee children at the First Istanbul Children's Congress, coordinated by the Istanbul Governorate and organised by the Istanbul Street Children Foundation under the patronage of President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, 26–27 June 2000.
  20. Lectures on refugee law at the Centre for Candidate Judges and Prosecutors, Ankara, 21 October–13 November 2000.
  21. “Refugee Law and International Standards”, paper presented at the seminar at Bursa Uludağ Police Training Centre, 17–20 April 2001.
  22. “Gender-Based Persecution”, paper presented at the UNHCR seminar in Antalya, 9 November 2001.
  23. “Refugee Law and Practice in Turkish Law: Assessment of Case Law”, paper presented at the refugee seminar organised jointly by Amnesty International Türkiye and the Van Bar, 19–20 October 2002.
  24. “Refugee Law and Standards”, round-table meeting organised by the Istanbul Bar Human Rights Centre Working Group on Refugee and Asylum Seeker Rights, Istanbul Bilgi University, 2 March 2002; Istanbul Bar Publications, Conference Series 2004/01, February 2004.
  25. “Removal of the Geographical Limitation and Alignment with the EU Acquis”, Umuda Doğru, Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants, year 4, issue 14, August 2004.
  26. “Peace Support Operations”, Çağ University Journal of Social Sciences, volume 1, issue 1, December 2004.
  27. “The Legal Status of Türkiye's Borders”, Çağ University Journal of Social Sciences, volume 2, issue 1, June 2005.
  28. “Judicial Supervision”, co-authored, Çağ University Journal of Social Sciences, volume 2, issue 2, December 2005.
  29. “The EU Acquis and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea from Türkiye's Perspective”, paper submitted to the conference organised by the General Staff on 8–9 February concerning the Convention's effects on Türkiye during EU accession negotiations.
  30. “Refugee Law and Turkish Refugee Policy”, Güncel Hukuk, issue 02, February 2006.
  31. “Conscientious Objection I”, Güncel Hukuk, issue 06, June 2006.
  32. “Conscientious Objection II”, Güncel Hukuk, issue 07, July 2006.
  33. “Recent Historical Developments in Asylum in Türkiye and Assessment of the Current Legal Position”, paper presented at the panel “The Asylum Question in Türkiye and the Case of Van”, 2 December 2006, Van, organised by UNHCR, the Van Governorate, Van Police Directorate, Van Municipality, Helsinki Citizens' Assembly, the Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants, the Van Bar, VAKAD and the Lake Van Lighthouse Association.
  34. “An Explanation of the First Three Articles of the Turkish Criminal Code No. 5237”, co-authored, Adana Bar Journal, year 1, issue 3, July–September.
  35. “Apprehension, Detention and Protective Custody”, paper presented at the Ministry of Interior, General Directorate of Security Training Department's MUYEP seminar on legislation governing police duties, powers and responsibilities, 23–27 October 2007, Antalya.
  36. “Apprehension, Detention and Protective Custody”, Adana Bar Journal, year 2, issue 5, January–March 2008.
  37. “Criminal Liability of Managers in Commercial Companies”, Istanbul Kültür University Faculty of Law Journal, year 7, volume 7, issue 1, January 2008.
  38. “Legal Status of Stateless Persons and Turkish Law”, UNHCR Academic Network Seminar on Asylum, Forced Migration and Statelessness, Ankara, 3–4 December 2009.
  39. “Statelessness and Turkish Law”, paper presented at the Academic Cooperation Conference on Migration, Asylum and Statelessness, organised by UNHCR Türkiye at the Swiss Hotel in Ankara, 3–4 December 2009; published in the conference proceedings.
  40. “Determining Children's Refugee Status under Turkish Law”, paper presented at the conference on recent developments in refugee and asylum law, Istanbul, 5 May 2010.
  41. “The Development of Asylum in Türkiye: From the Ottoman Era to the Present”, paper presented at UNHCR's Second Academic Network Seminar, “Türkiye's Historical Tradition of Asylum: Past and Future Practice in Establishing Legal Frameworks”, Ankara, 6–7 January 2011.
  42. “Determining the Breadth of Territorial Waters in the Aegean Sea”, paper presented at the Law of the Sea Symposium, Çağ University, 24–25 March 2011.
  43. “Sexual Violence against Women”, paper presented at the Osmaniye Bar's International Women's Day events, 8 March 2012.
  44. Chair of the session on sexual violence against women and presenter of a paper on the same subject at the Symposium on Violence against Women and Children with International Participation, Ankara, 27–28 April 2012.
  45. Chair of the children's rights session and presenter of “Children's Rights Worldwide and in Türkiye” at the Symposium on Children's Needs with International Participation, Ankara, 18–19 May 2012.
  46. “Syrians Admitted to Türkiye”, Güncel Hukuk, January 2015.
  47. “The Position of Victims in Criminal Procedure”, paper presented at the panel “Approaches to Victims in Criminal Justice”, jointly organised by the Ministry of Justice and the Adana Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, 1 October 2015.
  48. “Violence in Sport”, paper presented at the Sports Law Symposium, Çağ University, 14 April 2015.
  49. “Recent Developments in Refugee Law”, paper presented at the Adana Bar seminar on the general position of Syrian asylum seekers in the international legal order and their effects in Türkiye, 1 December 2015.
  50. “The Legal Status and Admission Conditions of Syrian Refugees”, paper presented at the workshop on the current situation of Syrian asylum seekers, 15 December 2015; published as a report.
  51. “Problems Encountered by Trainee Lawyers in Judicial Activities”, paper presented at the Symposium on Legal Traineeships and the Training of Lawyers, Çağ University, 8 April 2016.
  52. “Social Media Law in General”, paper presented at the Social Media Law Symposium, Çağ University, 4 April 2019.
  53. “Determining Children's Refugee Status”, paper presented at the Symposium on Women, Family and Child Law in the International Context, Istanbul University Faculty of Law, 8–9 March 2021; published in the proceedings.
  54. Chair of the organising committee of the International Symposium on Migration and Refugee Law, Çağ University, 11–12 May 2022, and presenter of a paper on marriage, birth registration, divorce and criminal-law issues concerning Syrians under temporary protection.

Newspaper Articles

  • “Jurisdiction of Martial Law Military Courts”, Milliyet, 12 February 1993.
  • “Caucasian Oil and the Straits”, Cumhuriyet, 30 August 1993.
  • “Dangerous Traffic Could Close the Straits”, Cumhuriyet, 31 August 1993.
  • “Harmful Passage Can Be Prevented”, Cumhuriyet, 1 September 1993.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses

  • 2019–2020, autumn and spring: Criminal Procedure (3 credits).
  • 2019–2020, autumn and spring: Private International Law (2 credits).
  • 2019–2020, autumn: Special Criminal Law (2 credits).
  • 2020–2021, autumn and spring: Criminal Procedure (3 credits).
  • 2020–2021, autumn and spring: Private International Law (2 credits).
  • 2021–2022, autumn and spring: Criminal Procedure (3 credits).
  • 2021–2022, autumn and spring: Private International Law (2 credits).
  • Autumn and spring, academic year unspecified: Criminal Procedure (3 credits).
  • 2022–2023: Private International Law (2 credits).

Master's Courses

  • 2019–2020, autumn: Offences against Life, Physical Integrity and Property (3 credits).
  • 2019–2020, spring: Stages of Criminal Procedure and Competent Authorities (3 credits).
  • 2020–2021, autumn: Offences against Life, Physical Integrity and Property (3 credits).
  • 2020–2021, spring: Stages of Criminal Procedure and Competent Authorities (3 credits).
  • 2021–2022, spring: Stages of Criminal Procedure and Competent Authorities (3 credits).
  • 2021–2022, autumn: Offences against Life, Physical Integrity and Property (3 credits).
  • 2022–2023, autumn: Offences against Life, Physical Integrity and Property (3 credits).

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