[citation needed] Her columns have also been published in international media such as The Guardian, The New York Times, La Stampa, Der Spiegel, Internazionale and Le Monde Diplomatique.

[1] A graduate of Ankara University's Faculty of Law, she lived in Beirut, Tunis, and Paris, to write her novels.

In 2008 she was a visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, during which time she wrote Deep Mountain, Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide.

In 2019, she published a nonfiction the internationally acclaimed book How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship, about the rise of right-wing populism and how it operates.

In 2023 she received the El Mundo International Journalism Awards in the Freedom of the Press category for her body of work.