Cigdem Akyol
Cigdem Akyol | |
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![]() Çiğdem Akyol, 2018 | |
Born | 1978 Herne |
Occupation | Journalist |
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Cologne |
Notable works | Ich wollte nie in die Türkei |
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
- ^ 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)
- CS1 German-language sources (de)
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with Libris identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- German women journalists
- German newspaper journalists
- German reporters and correspondents
- People from Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Die Tageszeitung people