No5 Barristers' Chambers

Public Law Group

Tutku has a broad and diverse practice in public law, spanning civil liberties & human rights, the Court of Protection, education law, prison law, inquests and inquiries, community care and public international law. She is a member of the Attorney-General’s Junior Junior Scheme.

Before joining No5 Chambers, Tutku practised internationally with a focus on public international law, human rights & civil liberties and international arbitration. She served as Judicial Assistant to Judge Dalveer Bhandari at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. She has also worked in various positions at the United Nations International Law Commission, the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, and the National University of Singapore’s Centre for International Law. Tutku trained and worked as an associate in the international arbitration departments of two law firms in Paris, acting as counsel, advisor, and shadow arbitral secretary in investment treaty and commercial arbitrations.

Alongside her practice, Tutku has developed a pro bono human rights practice, where she has acted on applications before the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Committee, focusing on prolonged pre-trial detention of journalists and human rights defenders, and has collaborated with NGOs and campaigns worldwide, including Human Rights Watch, Media Defence, Z2K, ECCHR, Advocates for Human Rights, the Campaign to Bring Yahya Jammeh and his Accomplices to Justice, and the UK Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom.

2018 – Call to the Bar of England and Wales

2021 – Qualified as an attorney at the New York Bar

Turkish (native), French (conversational), Spanish (conversational), Azerbaijani (working knowledge)

Court of Protection Bar Association (CPBA)

Court of Protection Practitioners Association (CoPPA)

Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA)

International Law Association, British Branch

American Society of International Law

LL.M. in International Legal Studies, New York University Law School (2018)

B.A. in Jurisprudence, University of Oxford (Exeter College) (2016)