After graduating the top of his class in 1968 from the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University, Ömer Madra completed his PhD entitled ”The European Convention of Human Rights and the Right of Individual Application“ in 1977 and went on to research human rights in the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. His study “Migrant Workers and International Law” was published in English. In 1982, he resigned from his academic post and

started to work as journalist. He currently works at Açık Radyo (Open Radio), a radio station that he co-founded in 1995 and has become one of Turkey’s top environmentalist media outlets.