Gökhan Köseoğlu

Judge, Head of Personnel Training Department, General Directorate of Prison and Detention Houses Türkiye, Türkiye

Gökhan KÖSEOĞLU, currently serving as the Head of Personnel Training Department of the General Directorate of Prison and Detention Houses Türkiye, has built an extensive career within the Turkish legal and penal system since graduating from Ankara University Faculty of Law in 2002. After completing his law internship at the Ankara Bar Association the same year, he worked as a freelance lawyer, registered with the Hatay Bar Association, in 2003.

His prosecutorial roles include positions as the Amasya/Suluova Public Prosecutor from 2006 to 2008, the Hatay/Altınözü Public Prosecutor from 2008 to 2011, and later, the Ankara Public Prosecutor from 2016 to 2019. Köseoğlu also served as an investigating judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals between 2011 and 2013, as well as at the Ministry of Justice, General Directorate of Prisons and Detention Houses from 2013 to 2016, and was the Supreme Court of Appeals Public Prosecutor from 2019 to 2022.

His contributions to the Turkish Penal Execution System are significant, including the preparation of the "Penal Execution Institutions and Detention Houses Monitoring Boards Training Textbook" for the Ministry of Justice. Köseoğlu has also represented Turkey in international forums, such as a study visit to Sweden in 2014 for the "Technical Assistance Project for the Improvement of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Services in Penal Institutions", the European Organization of Prisons and Correctional Services meeting in Portugal/Lisbon in 2015, and the European Prison Training Academies (EPTA) Network meeting in Tallinn/Estonia in 2023.