Profile

Turgut Aycan Özcan is the Managing Partner at Fırat Gültekin & Partners. Özcan has been dealing with international arbitration for more than 15 years. Özcan obtained his LL.M degree from University of London (Queen Mary & UCL) in international dispute resolution.

His main practice areas are International Investment & Commercial Arbitration, Public International Law and Energy Law. Until today, he has represented many Turkish investors in their ICSID arbitration cases filed against several Central Asia and Middle East countries. On the other hand, Özcan was also involved in the teams representing sovereign states before ICSID including Republic of Türkiye.

Özcan also acts as a counsel in some international commercial arbitration cases before ICC and other arbitration institutions with respect to construction and energy disputes. He is also serving as an arbitrator in several international commercial arbitral proceedings. Özcan is in the arbitrators panel of Energy Disputes Arbitration Center (EDAC). He lectures and gives seminars at several universities' law faculties in Türkiye in relation to international arbitration.