Günay Evinch

Günay Evinch is a lawyer at Saltzman & Evinch, PC, which has been providing public and private international legal services since 1994.

Günay is a Fulbright Scholar in International Law, with expertise on critical issues effecting U.S.—Turkish relations, such as anti-terror, Greece, Cyprus, Aegean Sea, and the Armenian allegation of genocide. Günay co-authors the Ethnic Terror Information Center and the Turkish Law Project. Günay has been published and quoted in The Washington Post, Washington Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor and Barrister Bar Magazine, as well as electronic media such as Forward and Al Jazeera USA.

Günay has served the Turkish American community as a volunteer and elected leader since 1989, when he published the ATAA's Turkish Times Sports and Eurasia News columns. He later served in the elected offices of ATAA Secretary General and Vice President for the Capital Region. To learn more about Günay's thought and goals with respect to the Turkish American community, please watch Episode 17 at the Turkish American Hour.

Günay received his Juris Doctor from Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia in 1991. He is certified from the University of Madrid School of Law in European Union commercial and human rights law, 1989. He received his B.A. with double majors in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Davis, in 1986, where he received the UC Regents Outstanding Seniors Award.

Günay Evinch is a second-generation Turkish American of Ottoman Macedonia heritage. He and his wife, Senem, have a two-year old daughter, Lara.