Afsin Yurdakul

Afsin has hosted and executive-produced prime-time current affairs programs for Turkey's Habertürk News Network. Afşin was previously the network’s chief foreign editor. She reported extensively on global affairs and has conducted interviews with prominent Turkish and international figures. Afşin wrote about Turkey and the Middle East for a variety of publications including The New York Times and Foreign Policy, among others. She moderated panel sat international conferences such as the World Economic Forum’s Middle East and Davos meetings. Afşin holds an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. In 2018, she was selected as the first Robert Long Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

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