Until recently, she was the foreign news editor of Turkish daily Cumhuriyet. Formerly, from 2012 to 2015, she was Turkish daily Milliyet’s Washington correspondent based in DC. In 2013, she received Journalists Association of Turkey’s (TGC) Honorable Mention Award for Interview. She’s held reporting and editing positions in various daily newspapers since 2003. She’s graduated from France’s prestigious journalism school École supérieure de journalism de Lille in 2010. She’s also a graduate of Galatasaray University in Istanbul and American Collegiate Institute in Izmir.