Başak Çubukçu

Başak Çubukçu was born in İstanbul in 1976. After graduating from the Department of Journalism in the Faculty of Communication, Marmara University, she started working as a correspondent at the ATV News Center in 1995.

She later worked as a senior correspondent at BRT, NTV and CNN TURK news centers where she was the editor and presenter of numerous investigative news stories, news programmes and documentary news.

She received an accolade from the Turkish Journalists’ Association in the ” Documentary News” category for her documentary titled “Restoration on the Surface” in 2005.

After leaving CNN TÜRK, she produced and directed a documentary news programme titled “From the Past to the Future” at Turkish state television, TRT’s Arabic channel.

Çubukçu, who has a special focus on women, children, education, cultural heritage and human stories, has been working as a correspondent at Al Jazeera Türk since 2011.