Captain Gündüz Aybay is Senior Partner of the Law Firm Aybay & Aybay and is Member of the Commission for preparing the Draft of the 1994 Turkish Straits Regulations on Safety Precautions in the Turkish Straits. Nilüfer Oral is Consultant to the Law Firm Aybay & Aybay and is Assistant Associate Professor at Bilgi University, Faculty of Law, İstanbul.