About me
Tracing systems of power across environment, energy, and conflict
My work explores how systems of power shape inequality across environment, energy, and conflict. As a multimedia producer, I develop my own stories through meticulous investigative processes, bringing together field reporting, documents, and data.
Notable investigations and exposés
A selection of in-depth investigations and longform stories
These works combine field reporting, document analysis, and data to uncover hidden systems, trace responsibility, and show how decisions, actors, and structures interact to produce inequality and shape everyday realities.
BTK-Gate: Turkey’s telecom authority tracks every user
An investigation based on leaked documents reveals that Turkey’s telecom authority systematically collected the internet traffic data of millions of users without anonymization. The findings raise serious concerns about mass surveillance, lack of oversight, and the potential use of this data for profiling, intelligence, and political control.
İliç: The Perfect Collapse – Deep dive into İliç Mining Disaster
An in-depth investigation reveals how years of regulatory failures, ignored warnings, and corporate decisions led to the 2024 disaster at the Çöpler Gold Mine, with far-reaching environmental and social impacts. Based on fieldwork, documents, and technical analysis, it exposes the structures that enabled the collapse, the normalization of risk, and the institutional limits that continue to shape accountability.
Scrap Wars: Conflict Metal Feeding Turkey’s Steel Industry
The investigation traces how scrap metal sourced from war-torn countries such as Syria and Libya feeds Turkey’s booming steel industry, linking conflict economies to global supply chains. Through field reporting, documents, and data, it reveals how this opaque trade relies on exploitation, weak oversight, and networks that may finance armed groups while supplying materials to international markets.
Conflict Reporting
Reporting on conflict, armed groups, and political violence, with a focus on networks such as ISIS and al-Qaeda.
My work examines how these actors operate across borders, combining field reporting, documents, and open-source research to trace how such groups organize, expand, and adapt. My investigations focus on the organizational structures, strategies, and the ways non-state armed groups interact with broader political and social dynamics over time, shaping both local realities and transnational networks.
Environment & Climate Reporting
Investigating climate, energy, and environmental conflicts, particularly coal and mining projects in Turkey.
I focus on how environmental decisions are made and implemented, combining field reporting, documents, and data to trace their impacts on ecosystems, communities, and public policy over time. It also uncovers how industrial activities reshape landscapes, affect livelihoods, and intersect with political and economic interests.
Collaborations and multi-disciplinary works
Projects developed through collaboration, spanning investigative reporting, video, books, and other multimedia formats, bringing together different methods, disciplines, and forms of storytelling.
Reporting in Turkish
Bodrum’un su ihtiyacı için kurulacak baraj, Muğla’daki Çamlıca Köyü mahallelerini ve arıcılık merkezi kızılçam ormanını sular altında bırakacak
Bodrum’un su ihtiyacını karşılamak için Muğla’nın Yatağan ilçesinde planlanan Bodrum İçme Suyu Barajı projesi inşa edilirse, kızılçam gen koruma[…]
Bartın Platformu’ndan, Çevre ve Şehircilik Bakanı Murat Kurum’a çağrı: “Amasra’ya termik santral projesini kesin olarak bitirin”
Çevre ve Şehircilik Bakanı Murat Kurum, önceki hafta Bartın’a yaptığı ziyarette Amasra’ya termik santral projesi konusunda açıklamalarda bulunmuş, bölgede[…]
Yerel halk baskısı ve yanlış planlama, 13 termik santral ve HES’te lisans iptali getirdi: İptal edilen projelere şimdi ne olacak?
Resmi Gazete’de yayınlanan EPDK kararlarıyla, 13 projenin elektrik üretim lisansları iptal edildi. Lisansı iptal edilen projeler arasında Hemşin’e Çevre[…]
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