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Ezgi Başaran is a journalist and political scientist originally from Istanbul, Turkey, and currently living in Oxford, UK. Ezgi made her name as a journalist covering Turkey’s Kurdish conflict. She started her career in 2004 at Hurriyet daily as a reporter. After accepting an offer to write a daily column on Turkish politics, she became the youngest ever editor of Radikal, the biggest centre-left news outlet in Turkey, and the first woman to hold the role. Ezgi served as the coordinator of the Programme on Contemporary Turkey at the South East European Centre (SEESOX) at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, where she explored the bridge between journalism and academia. In 2017 she was awarded a prestigious Dulverton Scholarship for her MPhil (Master of Philosophy) in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford University. She holds a DPhil (Doctor of Philosophy – Ph.D.) from the same university. She has written on Turkish domestic politics and her comments have appeared in major international media, including the BBC, the Financial Times, The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Her book ‘Barış Bir Varmış, Bir Yokmuş (Once upon a Time Peace)‘ was published by Doğan Kitap in 2015. Her first English language book Frontline Turkey: The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East was published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury in 2017. The New Spirit of Islamism, her second book, is published in June 2024. Ezgi taught the graduate course, The Politics of the Middle East, at the University of Oxford.

For recent articles visit her Substack titled ‘Angle, Anchor, Voice’ — https://ezgibasaran.substack.com