Cigdem Akyol, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Cigdem Akyol

German journalist and author

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Herne, Free State of Prussia, Germany

Profession: journalist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Cigdem Akyol (born October 1978 in Herne) is German journalist and author of Turkish-Kurdish ancestry.Akyols parents moved from Turkey to Germany in 1973 and settled in the Ruhr region in Herne.
Akyol grew up in Herne, where she attended the Haranni-Gymnasium (high school).
After her graduation in 1998 she studied international law and Eastern European history at the University of Cologne.
Then she moved to Berlin to attend a journalism school and began working as a journalist.
From 2006 to 2014 she worked for Berlin-based national German newspaper Die Tageszeitung, for which she often reported from abroad.
In 2014 she accepted a temporary position the Deutsche Presse-Agentur offered in Istanbul.
After the completion of her term she remained in Istanbul working as a freelance journalist and book author.
In 2015 she published a book about Turkey in the 21st century, describing it as a conflicted split society and in 2016 she followed it up with an extensive biography of the Turkish politician and president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.