[1] Şerif Turgut received her master's degree in international politics from George Washington University, USA.
Intended in the beginning to stay ten days only, she remained in Bosnia for almost five years when her life changed after she witnessed the horror there.
[3] She reported for the Turkish television channel ATV from the Bosnian War,[4] at which more than hundred thousand people were killed between 1992 and 1995.
[1] During this time, she was involved in creation and management of information dissemination mechanisms in the fields such as demilitarization, social integration, political rehabilitation, elections and post conflict transition.
[10] She was a friend of Spanish war correspondent Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora, with whom she went to Srebrenica right after the 1995 massacre there.