Defne Samyeli (born 1 July 1972) is a Turkish TV presenter, columnist, singer and actress.

Samyeli was born as the first child of an Istanbul admiral Haluk and hotel manager Sendegül who is from Adana's Ramazanoğullar family.

[4] Samyeli, who started her career as a journalist and graduated from Boğaziçi University, was a news reporter in the main news bulletin of Kanal D under the direction of Tuncay Özkan.

She received 2 international awards for her different news presentation in the main news bulletin of Kanal D. Samyeli has been a columnist for Milliyet newspaper, the editor and presenter of Show TV's main news bulletin, and a writer for Güneş newspaper.

[5] Samyeli who worked as a columnist for Milliyet for so many years, parted her ways from the newspaper on 3 January 2015.