Asena Tuğal (born 28 August 1984) is a Turkish television journalist and actress. She presented on

TGRT TGRT (initialism of ''Türkiye Gazete Radyo Televizyon'', 'Türkiye Newspaper, Radio, Television') was a Turkish free-to-air television channel. Launched by İhlas Holding as one of Turkey's earliest private television broadcasters on April 22, ...

Kanal D Kanal D (English: Channel D) is a nationwide television channel in Turkey that is part of Demirören Group. It was founded by Ayhan Şahenk and Aydın Doğan in 1993. The network has also run an international channel, Euro D, since 1996, whic ...

and

Show TV Show TV is a Turkish free-to-air national television channel, established in 1991 by Erol Aksoy, Dinç Bilgin, Haldun Simavi and Erol Simavi, owned by the Can Holding. History The channel replaces Cine5's now-defunct frequencies, and it was ...

in Turkey and on

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after having spent six years behind the scenes. In 2006, Tuğal was selected 3rd runner up in the

Miss Turkey The Miss Turkey () is a national beauty pageant in Turkey. The pageant was founded in 1929, where the winners titled as Miss Turkey World, and Miss Turkey Supranational. History The Miss Turkey pageant was initially promoted by the newspa ...

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. She went on to participate in the 2006

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pageant.

Biography

Tuğal received her

bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years ...

from

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Boğaziçi Üniversitesi''), also known as Bosphorus University, is a Public university, public research university in Istanbul, Turkey, historically tied to a former American educational insti ...

with a double major in Maths and Science. She was awarded a Young Scientist Award from the

Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey The Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey (, TÜBİTAK) is a national agency of Turkey whose stated goal is to develop "science, technology and innovation" (STI) policies, support and conduct research and development, and to ...

in the field of Chemistry. Tuğal had a guest actress role in the TV comedy series "''

Akasya Durağı ''Akasya Durağı'' was a Turkish comedy television series on Kanal D, in 2008. Overview The story is about Nuri an old, wise and kind man and his taxi company called Akasya Durağı. As he is a retired man, the story circles mostly around the ...

''", which debuted in 2008 and broadcast by

. She played the character "Hande" in the 2009 TV drama series "''Ömre Bedel''" ( Fox TV Turkey). In the TV high school series "''Öğretmen Kemal''" (Fox TV, 2010), she had a leading role as "Nehir". Tuğal holds the black belt in

taekwondo Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ...

and competes on Turkey's national taekwondo team. She also has a passion for

origami ) is the Japanese art of paper folding. In modern usage, the word "origami" is often used as an inclusive term for all folding practices, regardless of their culture of origin. The goal is to transform a flat square sheet of paper into a ...

TV series

References

1984 births Models from Istanbul Living people Turkish beauty pageant winners Turkish women journalists Boğaziçi University alumni Turkish female taekwondo practitioners Turkish television actresses Turkish female martial artists Turkish film actresses Television people from Istanbul {{Turkey-bio-stub