Nazlı Ilıcak
Nazlı Ilıcak (born Nazlı Çavuşoğlu in 1944) is a prominent Turkish journalist and writer.
Private life
Nazlı Ilıcak was born 1944 to Muammer Çavuşoğlu, a politician and former government minister, and his wife İhsan in Ankara, Turkey. She has a brother Ömer Çavuşoğlu.[1]
She attended TED Ankara College, completed her secondary education however at Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul. Ilıcak studied Political Science at University of Lausanne.[1]
In 1969, she married to Kemal Ilıcak, publisher of the daily Tercüman. She became mother of two from this marriage. Her husband died in 1993 due to brain-bleeding. Ilıcak remarried one year later to Emin Şirin. Her second marriage ended in 2003 with divorce.[1]
Career
She entered journalism after her father's death in 1972. After working in various posts at Tercüman, she became publisher of the tabloid Bulvar. She later wrote for the newspapers Meydan, Hürriyet, Akşam, Yeni Şafak, Takvim, Sabah and Bugün.[1]
Ilıcak and a dozen other prominent journalists lost their jobs in 2014 because they criticized the government.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Nazlı Ilıcak Biyografisi". Herkul Haber (in Turkish). 2015-06-16. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
- ↑ Sarıkaya, Salih (2014-10-17). "True journalism fights for survival under gov’t carrot-stick policy". Today's Zaman. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
External links
- Salih Sarıkaya (17 October 2014). "Turkish Journalist Nazlı Ilıcak Lost Her Job For Asking Question".