Ayhan DOLUNAY

Ayhan Dolunay was born in Kyrenia, 1991. He graduated from Kyrenia Anafartalar Secondary School and started to Near East University Faculty of Law in 2009. After the post graduation programme he registered to Near East University Social Science Instutite Private Law Post Graduation programme under the scope of NEU Academic Member Education Programme – Teaching Staff Training Program (ÖYP), 2013. He began to work as research assistant at NEU Faculty of Law. He presented a tv program “Yakından Hukuk” which shooted at NEU TV and aired at BRT and Sim TV. In 2015, he defended his postgraduation thesis called “Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Court Decisions in Turkish Law and Turkish Cypriot Law” and completet his programme. While he continued to his law internship; registered to Near East University Social Science Instutite Private Law Doctorate programme, under the scope of ÖYP. He worked as academician and he had been entrusted with a task of NEU Law Consultancy. Under the scope of NEU advertising activites, he achieved several seminars of law – justice in TRNC and Turkey.

Dolunay registered to NEU Social Science Institute Media and Communication Studies Doctorate programme under the scope of ÖYP in 2015 and began to work as a full time member of NEU Faculty of Communication. Also, in 2016, he began to work at NEU Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences as a part time member.

In 2018, he defended his PhD thesis called “Freedom of the Press in The Dıgıtal Age within the Frameworks of Legal and Ethic Codes: Example of the TRNC” and completed his programme.

Dr. Dolunay pariticipated to Law, Political Science and Communication thems symposiums and seminars’ organization committees. He attended to several national and international conferences (at Harvard University, Oxford University, etc.) and made presentations. In English and Turksih language, he has several publishings about communication, law, sosyology in national and internatioal academic journals (Thomson Reuters Web of Science, Social Sciences Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index Expanded, Emergining Sciences Citation Index, Scopus). He contribute as reviewer to many national and international journals. Also he has 5 (3 international and 2 national) published academic books.

He has served as a referee in many international journals (Including Thomson Reuters WOS Indexed Journals). Dr. Ayhan Dolunay is a member of Scientific Board of International Turkish World Press Symposium and Editorial Board of International Journal of Art, Culture and Communication.