Cansu Çamlıbel

Cansu Çamlıbel is a journalist based in Istanbul, Turkey. She became the founding Editor-in-Chief of independent online newspaper Duvar English in October 2019 and managed the outlet until she left in October 2021. During that time, she also wrote a column on diplomacy and Turkish politics in the sister publication Gazete Duvar in Turkish. Prior to this role, she was the Washington Correspondent for the daily Hurriyet of Turkey for two years. She resigned due to political pressure and self-censorship inside the newsroom in February 2019 and returned to Turkey. Before her appointment to the U.S. capital she worked for Hurriyet in Istanbul in various roles including her 5 years as the political interviewer of the newspaper. She was awarded with ‘Nieman Journalism Fellowship’ at Harvard University for the 2015-2016 period. At Harvard, she made a comparative research on the modern-day propaganda tactics of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey and the propaganda schemes of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany in 1930s. Prior to Hurriyet, Cansu Çamlıbel worked as the Brussels Correspondent of Turkish news network NTV. She holds a Master of Arts degree in International Journalism from Cardiff University in the UK. She is a member of Turkey National Committee of the International Press Institute (IPI) – Vienna based media freedom and independent journalism advocacy network – and hosts a monthly podcast titled “Freedom Dialogues” as part of her activism work for IPI.