Sevil Atasoy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sevil Atasoy

Internationally distinguished leader:Forensic Sciences/immediate past president:the UN International Narcotics Control Board

Date of Birth: 25-Feb-1949

Place of Birth: Istanbul, Turkey

Profession: researcher, biochemist

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Sevil Atasoy (born February 25, 1949) 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.
Semsi Gök (1921–2002) and bacteriologist Dr.
Ferda Gök (1924–2003).
She is currently the executive director of the Innocence Project (Turkey), 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 Kanit (Evidence), which premiered on Kanal D, a national TV network, on July, 2010.
The show was created and produced by Abdullah Oguz.
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 Hartevioglu.