Nevşin Mengü (born 2 May 1982) is a Turkish journalist and television presenter. For her middle school, Mengü attended

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, and had her undergraduate education at the political science department of

Bilkent University Bilkent University () is a private non-profit research university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by İhsan Doğramacı, the first president of the Council of Higher Education and the head of the prominent Doğramacı family, with th ...

. She received her master's degree from

Galatasaray University Galatasaray University (, ) is a public university established in Istanbul, Turkey in 1992, following an agreement signed in the presence of President François Mitterrand of France and President Turgut Özal of Turkey during a ceremony at Gala ...

with the thesis "Social views on Turkey". Due to her "open views on ifferent types offreedom" and her respect and "recognition of different identities", she self-identifies as a liberal. In an interview, she stated that she has been a vegan since her childhood.

Career

In 2006, Mengü started to work as a reporter in ''

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''. She quit her job in this channel upon the offer of working as a correspondent from

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for One Agency. She served as the agency's representative in Tehran for 1.5 years. In July 2011, Mehmet Ali Birand, the main news presenter of

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, a channel run by the media group of DYH, could not be present for broadcast due to health problems, and Mengü made history by presenting main news bulletins on two different Turkish television channels on the same day. Her first book, ''İnsanın Düşünmekten Canı Yanar mı?'', in which she wrote her observations during her reporting period in Iran, was published in November 2017 by Everest Publications. On 31 October 2017, she started writing for ''

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'' newspaper. She has been presenting a weekly Youtube news show at Deutsche Welle Turkish since November 2017. On 31 July 2019, she started writing a column for the online newspaper '' Diken''.

Debate about her at the Parliament

In December 2010,

Bülent Arınç Bülent Arınç (; born 25 May 1948) is a conservative Turkish politician. He served as the 22nd Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey from 2002 to 2007 and as a Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey between 2009 and 2015. He also co-founded the Just ...

, the state minister and deputy prime minister at the time, answered questions about the budget of the institutions affiliated to the ministry and the parliamentary questions, about which he said: "You accuse the staff of TRT, but the daughter of a CHP representative worked at TRT and received a salary." In a response, the CHP representative and Nevşin Mengü's father, Şahin Mengü, said: "Under the roof of the

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, my daughter was alleged to have worked and received a salary in TRT. I also asked the General Manager of TRT about it. He said 'We don't have paid staff.' Now the same issue is brought up here again. My daughter was a correspondent in Tehran for an international agency and her reports appeared on TRT as well. Prove that my daughter received a salary from TRT for one day, and I resign from parliament today." Nevşin Mengü also talked about the issue in an interview:

Books

* ''İnsanın Düşünmekten Canı Yanar mı?'' (Everest Publications, 2017 - ) * ''Herkes İstediği Gibi Yaşasın'' (İletişim Publishing, 2021 - )

References

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