Barçın Yinanç/ English

Barçın Yinanç, is currently an independent journalist. She has a career of 30 years covering Turkey’s foreign policy and international relations. She writes analysis and opinion articles for the websites T24, Yetkinreport and Anka Review. She also provides comments to news channels.

Until September 2020 she was the opinion editor of the English language Hürriyet Daily News, where her columns were also published. She also conducted the paper’s weekly interviews for nearly a decade.

Prior to that Yinanç worked in CNN Türk’s İstanbul headquarters as an editor for a news program.

Early career

Yinanç started her career in Ankara; where she worked 15 years as a diplomatic reporter before moving to İstanbul.

She travelled extensively in Europe and the Middle East, covering Turkish leaders visits to these regions and reported from key summits of NATO, EU and OSCE. In 2001 she became a tv reporter and worked in CNN Türk Ankara office until 2004 when she moved to İstanbul.

She has participated as speaker or mediator to numerous meetings of UN bodies, like UNDP and think tanks like Chattam House, Wilton Park, Warsaw Security forum.

Yinanç studied international relations at the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) in Ankara.

She is the Olympic torchbearer of 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. She is a member of Diplomatic Reporters Association, Scientific Committee of Paris Bosphorus Institute, Ski Club of International Journalists (SCIJ) and Women in Foreign Policy Platform.
Barçın Yinanç speaks fluent English and French.