[1] Born in 1948, Tuba Çandar attended the Austrian High School in Istanbul.
Çandar received her bachelor's degree in political science and international relations at the Ankara University in 1979.
Çandar went to exile in Germany after the military coup of March 1971, and following the amnesty, she returned to Turkey where she became the editor-in-chief of Bizim Almanca magazine under the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet.
She worked as an editor at Gergedan magazine and freelanced for various dailies including Yeni Yüzyıl, penning pieces on culture, arts and travel, and Gazete Pazar, where she started her "Portraits" column.
A Life) on the outspoken leftist Turkish intellectual and literary critic Murat Belge in 2007.