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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

•Works as Voice of America Turkish Language Service website/TV editor in addition to fulfilling daily responsibilities of an international TV and web broadcaster. •Provides content for the web and TV, conducting on-camera interviews, editing them for TV and internet use by using the relevant editing software, covering news events in Washington DC and other venues.•Provides live reports to daily TV show Studio Washington and takes part in Skype feeds with VOA Turkish Service’s TV affiliate EkoTurk.•Appears as VOA reporter on Bloomberg's Turkey affiliate BloombergHT, Disney owned Fox Turkey, KRT, Medyascope and Deutsche Welle.•Produce documentaries for Turkish Service; adapt documentaries for VOA Central News. Won two special programming award of VOA’s South and Central Asia Division for Turkish documentary on Donald Trump and five-days of coverage of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Washington during the 2016 Nuclear Summit.•Conducts interviews with prominent politicians, analysts and journalists•Hosts live reports for VOA Turkish’s Facebook page.•Does voiceover for TV reports.

Writing lifestyle and art columns.

Writing short stories and fiction.

Istanbul, Turkey

May 2014 - Covering mine disaster in Soma, Turkey for Reuters News AgencySep 2014 - Producing documentaries for TRT https://youtu.be/4J8aH2OgwfoOct 2014 - Covering news for Deutsche Welle in Bonn/Germany

Turkey/Doha-Qatar

• Worked as Al Jazeera Turkey’s website editor in addition to fulfilling daily responsibilities of an International TV Broadcaster. Reported live events for TV, wrote extensive TV and web reports on current global events.• Reported TV news specialized on Turkey for Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera Balkans.• Produced English TV packages for Al Jazeera English and Balkans.• Worked as an online producer in Al Jazeera headquarters in Doha and prepared multimedia news reports for English website.• Traveled extensively within Turkey to gather news material. Worked as professional news gatherer and reporter. • Worked as a field producer for Al Jazeera English, America, Arabic and Balkans' teams especially near Syrian border during civil war in Syria. Covered stories of refugees and defectors.• Covered 2013 protests in Istanbul, A wave of demonstrations initially to contest the urban development plan for Taksim’s Gezi Park where hundreds of thousand people attended with too many wounded and detainees. Exposed to pepper gas and tried to continue under heavy circumstances.• Had Cadre Consultants Hostile Environment Risk Awareness Training in January 2013. A five-day course that addresses a range of threats to health and safety, from such factors as diseases, health and hygiene, proliferation of weapons, known use of land mines, etc. Coping with Attack, First Aid & Surveillance Awareness.• Participated fully and covered the international summits in Istanbul

Istanbul, Turkey

Reporting news specialized in foreign affairs, medicine and technology.Presenting midday news on weekends.

Istanbul, Turkey

Editing foreign news, organizing live debates on foreign affairs with guests and connections

Istanbul, Turkey

* Reporting news specialized in foreign affairs, medicine, art and technology for TV and NTVMSNBC.com* Editing foreign news, preparing NTVMSNBC’s world section* Doing research and writing for NTV almanacsRELEVANT EXPERIENCE:Oct - Dec 2002 NTV News Channel: Two months work experience as a subeditor at foreign news deskWriting soft newsAugust – Sept 2000 NTV News Channel: One month internship at foreign newsdesk

Bachelor’S Degree, International Relations

Activities and Societies: Festival Commitee

Associate’S Degree