During her years in college she wrote for the Turkish journals, Tomorrow and Science and Art, which were associated to the Workers Party of Turkey.

Later, she became the diplomatic correspondent at the Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, which was at the time under the direction of Hasan Cemal .

She left Milliyet and CNN Türk in November 2007 to help launch the newspaper Taraf'',[1] where she worked for five years as Deputy Editor-in-Chief and columnist.

Çongar founded the NGO called Punto24 (P24 / Independent Platform for Journalism) with Hasan Cemal, Doğan Akın and Yavuz Baydar in 2013.

Over the years, Çongar's interviews with writers such as Günter Grass, Colson Whitehead, Jenny Erpenbeck, Adania Shibli, Hisham Matar and others were published in Turkey.