Journalist and writer (b.
İstanbul, 1953). She is a graduate of Üsküdar American College for Girls and
the Middle East Technical University, Department of Economics. She completed
her master at John Hopkins University in the United States, Department of
International Relations and Economics (1978). She started her career in
journalism at Cumhuriyet newspaper in
1982. She worked as a foreign reporter for five years in Madrid and for eight
years in Rome.
Her articles were published
by foreign publishing agencies such as L'Ekspres
and Grazia. She transferred to Sabah newspaper in 1992. Having worked as a reporter and a columnist
in the period 1995 to 2000, she returned to Cumhuriyet
newspaper in 2001. She is one of the professional journalists who are experts
in the field of Republican Era foreign policy.
WORKS:
Bir Kanlı Gül (A Bloody Rose, articles about Spain, 1987), Annem Batıya Gidin Dedi (My Mother Told Us to Go West, her
interviews with many people ranging form Çetin Altan to Atilla İlhan, from
Oliviero Toscani to Abdullah Öcalan, from Tansu Çiller to Necmettin Erbakan and
from Abdullah Gül to Orhan Pamuk, 2001).