Like others, Soner Yalçın working for Aydınlık was considered at that time part of a broader project, and he was not a member of this party.
Following that, Soner Yalçın briefly worked for the newspaper Siyah – Beyaz (Black - White) published by Doğan Yurdakul before starting a new career in television in 1996 for Show TV.
Later CNN Türk asked Soner Yalçın and Cüneyt Özdemir to prepare a new television program called 5N1K.
With journalist Barış Pehlivan, Soner Yalçın produced a number of political documentaries called Oradaydim ("I was there") broadcast by CNN Türk.
According to the arrested journalist, a pro-Gülen movement clandestine network within the Turkish police hacked his computer and falsified the documents in order to put in jail him and his colleagues working for OdaTV.