Cigdem Akyol
Cigdem Akyol (born October 1978 in Herne) is German journalist and author of Turkish-Kurdish ancestry.[1]
Life[]
Akyols parents moved from Turkey to Germany in 1973 and settled in the Ruhr region in Herne. Akyol grew up in Herne, where she attended the Haranni-Gymnasium (high school). After her graduation in 1998 she studied international law and Eastern European history at the University of Cologne. Then she moved to Berlin to attend a journalism school and began working as a journalist. From 2006 to 2014 she worked for Berlin-based national German newspaper Die Tageszeitung, for which she often reported from abroad. In 2014 she accepted a temporary position the Deutsche Presse-Agentur offered in Istanbul. After the completion of her term she remained in Istanbul working as a freelance journalist and book author. In 2015 she published a book about Turkey in the 21st century, describing it as a conflicted split society and in 2016 she followed it up with an extensive biography of the Turkish politician and president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[1][2] Since 2019 Akyol has been a staff writer at the Swiss weekly WOZ.[3]
Books[]
- Generation Erdogan. Die Türkei – ein zerrissenes Land im 21. Jahrhundert. Kremayr & Scheriau, 2015, ISBN 978-3-218-00969-0
- Erdogan: Die Biografie. Herder, 2016, ISBN 978-3451328862
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Ich wollte nie in die Türkei" - biography at lokalkompass.de (German, retrieved 30 May 2016, archived version)
- ^ Cigdem Akyol at Perlentaucher (German, retrieved 30 May 2016)
- ^ "Hausmitteilungen". www.woz.ch (in German). 2019-12-11. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
External links[]
- Official website
- Autorin im Porträt: Cigdem Akyol - biographical portrait at kremayr-scheriau.at (German)
- "Ich wollte nie in die Türkei" - biography at lokalkompass.de (German, archived version)
- Cigdem Akyol at Perlentaucher (German)
- Cigdem Akyol - Die Erdogan-Biografin - interview broadcast by ARD (German)
- German journalists
- German women journalists
- German newspaper journalists
- German reporters and correspondents
- People from Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Die Tageszeitung people