İlkan Türküresin is a lawyer and social entrepreneur working in the field of agricultural law. He completed his undergraduate education at Istanbul University Faculty of Law. He completed his master’s degree at Istanbul Bilgi University with a thesis titled “A New Organisation Model Proposal in Turkish Agricultural Law: Farmer Type Joint Stock Companies” at Istanbul Bilgi University.

In his thesis, he showed that cooperatives cannot be a suitable structure for Turkish agricultural organisation due to the small and fragmented structure of agricultural holdings, which is a structural problem in Turkish agriculture, and created the “Farmer Type Joint Stock Company” model specific to the Turkish agricultural structure by using the institutions and principles of joint stock companies.

In addition to his academic studies in the field of agricultural law, he has provided legal consultancy services to many companies, especially agricultural and food companies, as a lawyer.

He established the State of Food Association by bringing together lawyers working in the field of agricultural and food law in Turkey. He is currently the chairman of the board of directors of the association and works on the “right to food”.