Nury Turkel
Nury Turkel is an attorney and strategic advisor whose career has been defined by the intersection of national security, international trade, corporate compliance, and technology policy.
In public service, he was a driving force behind the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act — one of the most consequential trade and human-rights statutes in recent decades — and served two terms as a Commissioner, and as Chairman, of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, helping shape U.S. policy on forced labor, sanctions, supply-chain integrity, and the national-security dimensions of international trade.
In practice, he spent more than four years helping lead and strengthen a DOJ monitorship-grade global anti-corruption compliance program spanning more than 180 markets for a multinational telecommunications company — firsthand responsibility for designing and implementing enterprise-wide controls, not simply advising on them.
Earlier, he practiced at Covington & Burling and Kirstein & Young, and served as a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, where his work focused on national security, emerging technology, and U.S.–China strategic competition.
He is the author of No Escape (HarperCollins), winner of the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing, and host of the podcast Flashpoints with Nury Turkel. His analysis appears regularly in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy.