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Sebnem Arsu is a veteran journalist who has been covering Turkey and its region for over 20 years.
 
She opened the Turkey bureau for the Associated Press Television in Istanbul in 1996 before she joined Reuters News Television as a senior producer in 1998. Her career in print journalism started in 2001 with the New York Times where she became the first Turkish correspondent of the paper, reporting mainly on Turkey for nearly 15 years. 
 
After covering major breaking stories, conflicts as well as social and cultural transitions in the region, her area of expertise remains to be politics, with a keen eye for issues that relate to gender equality, media freedoms, freedom of expression and religiously-inspired politics.  
 
She studied English Language and Literature at Hacettepe University in Ankara before her postgraduate studies in International Journalism at City University in London as a Chevening fellow.  
 
She's currently reporting for Der Spiegel in Turkey.