Brussels Forum Session: The Middle East: Crisis and Opportunity at a Time of Global Disruption
Barçın Yinanç is an independent journalist with more than 30 years of experience covering Türkiye’s foreign policy and international relations. She is the foreign policy analyst of the T24 news website, and writes analysis and opinion pieces for various Turkish and foreign outlets including TurkeyinDepth and TurkeyAnalyst. She also provides commentary for television broadcasters.
Yinanç was previously the opinion editor of the English-language Hürriyet Daily News, in which she published her own columns and for which she conducted the paper’s weekly interviews for nearly a decade. Before that, she worked in CNN Türk’s İstanbul headquarters as a news program editor.
Yinanç started her career in Ankara, where she worked for 15 years as a diplomatic reporter. She has spoken at or moderated meetings of UN bodies, such as the UN Development Programme, and think tanks, such as GMF, Chatham House, Wilton Park, and the Warsaw Security Forum.
Yinanç studied international relations at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. She is a board member of the International Relations Council Association, the Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies, and the Berlin Bosphorus Initiative, and a member of the Diplomatic Reporters Association, the Women in Foreign Policy Platform, the Global Relations Forum, and the Institut du Bosphore Scientific Committee. She is also a member of the Ski Club of International Journalists and was an Olympic torchbearer of 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.