Eleni Fotiadou was born into a wealthy family in the Cihangir neighborhood of Beyoğlu district in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1921.
[1][2][3] She started her career through an acquintance with an American representative of the news agency Associated Press (AP) in Turkey, who taught her photography.
"[3] The second turning point in her professional career came when she met her high school Turkish literature teacher, Rasim Us, again.
[1][2] She gave up photojournalism in 1964, when her photography films with the coverage of a fire at the Veliefendi Race Course were plundered in the darkroom by her co-workers.
[3][5] Eleni Fotiadou married to journalist Kayhan Küreman,[6] editor in chief of the Turkish daily,Vakit, whom she met during her time at the newspaper.
[4] Vasfiye Özkoçak, the chairwoman of the Social Solidarity Foundation of Journalists, honored her with a commemorative plaque that was given to her husband.