She received her master's degree from Galatasaray University with the thesis "Social views on Turkey".

[1] Due to her "open views on [different types of] freedom" and her respect and "recognition of different identities", she self-identifies as a liberal.

[5] Her first book, İnsanın Düşünmekten Canı Yanar mı?, in which she wrote her observations during her reporting period in Iran, was published in November 2017 by Everest Publications.

[6] She has been presenting a weekly Youtube news show at Deutsche Welle Turkish since November 2017.

[8] In December 2010, Bülent Arınç, the state minister and deputy prime minister at the time, answered questions about the budget of the institutions affiliated to the ministry and the parliamentary questions, about which he said: "You accuse the staff of TRT, but the daughter of a CHP representative worked at TRT and received a salary.