Gökey Saraçyakupoğlu
Gökey Saraçyakupoğlu got his Bachelor’s degree from Ankara University Faculty of Law in 2019; after that, he was accepted to the LL.M. Program in Public Law at Hacettepe University Faculty of Law. In the meantime, he graduated from Anadolu University Faculty of Economics International Relations Program. In 2022, he completed the LL.M. program with his thesis “Abuse of Rights in International Law of the Sea and Its Implications in The Context of International Treaties” with magna cum laude degree. His LL.M. thesis, which was published by Nobel Academic Publisher under the name of “Prohibition of Abuse of Rights in International Law of the Sea” (ISBN: 978-625-433-982-0) (in Turkish) in the same year, put Art. 300 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea under the spotlight.
Saraçyakupoğlu began his Ph.D. in the Summer Term of 2023 under the supervision of Prof. Kreß at IIPSL. His thesis will elucidate the legality of maritime law enforcement activities by coastal states in disputed maritime areas, which the international judiciary has been encountering for several years. As a problem of maritime criminal jurisdiction, in the thesis, this area of the international law of the sea will be scrutinized in all its parts.
Gokey Saraçyakupoğlu has been an attorney at law since 2021 and is a member of Ankara Bar Association in Türkiye.
Since 15/07/2025, he is a member of EU COST Action 23103 Life, Liberty and Health: Ensuring Universal Protection of Human Rights at Sea and since 14/11/2025, a member of the ILA Study Group on International Law, Human Rights and Islands.
He is a member of the Cologne Center for Advanced Studies in International History and Law.
Current Research Project
Doctoral thesis on "The Legality of Maritime Law Enforcement Activities by Coastal States in Disputed Maritime Areas" (working title).
Conferences and Seminars
- Certificate Program on the Law of the International Trade by Sea (National Center for the Sea and Maritime Law), 12/06/2021-20/06/2021
- International Law of the Sea Academy (Kadir Has University), 28/06/2021-09/07/2021
- International Training Workshop on Global Ocean Governance in the New Era, 13/09/2021-17/09/2021
- IFLOS Maritime Talks 2022: Security, Safety, and Freedom of Navigation through Straits, 24/09/2022-24/09/2022
- 10th Edition of Summer School on the European Union and The Law of the Sea (Genova/Italy), 26/08/2024 – 06/09/2024.
- 11th Edition of Yeosu Academy of the Law of the Sea (Yeosu/South Korea), 21/10/2024 – 01/11/2024
- 12th Global Ocean Regime Conference (Busan/South Korea), 03/11/2024 – 05/11/2024
- Inaugural Workshop of the Case of the S.S. Lotus- The First 100 Years (Lund/Sweden), 09/01/2025 – 10/01/2025
- 6th Edition of Gujarat Maritime University Academy on Seabed Governance (Online), 01/03/2025 – 07/03/2025
- 17th Edition of International Foundation for the Law of the Sea Summer Academy (Hamburg/Germany), 14/07/2025 – 08/08/2025
Publications
- Archipelagic State Concept in the Context of the Law of the Sea and Indonesia as an “Archipelagic State” (in Turkish), Journal of Turkish Bar Associations (157) (2022), p. 457-91.
- Determining the Scope of Article 300 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in Light of the Decisions of the International Tribunal for the law of the Sea (in Turkish), ASES II. Conference on Social Sciences (2022), p. 181-190
- Abuse of Rights in International Law of the Sea (in Turkish), Ankara, Türkiye: Nobel Bilimsel, 2022.
Gökey Saraçyakupoğlu
External Doctoral Candidate
Institute for International Peace and Security Law