Güley was a Researcher at the Middle East Centre. She is an international lawyer who previously managed the Yazidi Genocide Documentation Project of Yazda in Duhok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, as a Harvard Law School Satter Human Rights Fellow. She also authored Yazda’s second mass graves report entitled Working Against the Clock: Documenting Mass Graves of Yazidis Killed by the Islamic State. 

Under the Conflict Research Programme, Güley was leading a research project on responses to and reparations for conflict-related sexual violence in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. Her wider research interests include gender, transitional justice and human rights in Iraq and Turkey. She holds a BA from Bilkent University and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.