Leyla Barlas Aslan

BIO Leyla Susan BARLAS-ASLAN After her studies in the Netherlands (dept. of Education at Katholieke Leergangen Tilburg) she graduated from the Department of Tanslation and Interpretation at Bosphorus University in 1994. The same year she started to work for the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Istanbul. Since 2001 she has been working at the consulate for the MATRA (Maatschappelijke Transformatie=Social Transformation) programme, a fund from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs that supports current and potential EU candidate countries’ Ngo’s and Municipalities. She speaks Dutch, Turkish, English, French, German.