As of 2015, she wrote for BirGün and the Firat News Agency (ANF).
[1] She was kept under arrest between December 2011 and April 2013 as a part of the KCK investigation and is a recipient of the John Aubuchon Award for Press Freedom.
Following the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, her family fled to France,[2] where she grew up.
She was detained at the Bakırköy Women's Prison,[3] until her release on 26 April 2013.
[7] Whilst in prison, she went on a hunger strike, calling for the wider official use of Kurdish in the public sphere and the removal of Abdullah Öcalan from his isolation in prison.