Meltem Inan

Meltem Inan (b. 1973; Ankara) is a Turkish journalist and writer. Inan, due to her father's job, spent her childhood in Spain. After completing her primary education at the International Primary School in Madrid, she moved back to Ankara and graduated from TED Ankara College. She received her higher education in the Department of English Language Teaching at the Faculty of Education of the Middle East Technical University. She started her journalism career in 1994, on a program called "32nd Day". She then worked as a foreign policy and art correspondent at the Kanal D News Center for a year. During this period, her interview with Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou remained on the agenda for a long time. She worked as a war correspondent during the conflict in Northern Iraq. After studying investigative journalism in the USA for a while, she worked for the documentary "The Messenger" prepared by Coskun Aral for five years; she prepared documentary episodes in more than fifty countries in Africa, Asia, North America, South America and Europe. During the period when F-type prisons were on the agenda in Turkey, she became the first journalist to be imprisoned in the American State Penitentiary and, together with Coskun Aral, received the "2002 Best Documentary Award" of the Contemporary Journalists Association with this documentary section. Her interviews with Richard Gere and the 14th Dalai Lama were widely covered in the outside world press. She prepared the travel program called "Rota" on NTV. In the program, where she toured all over Turkey and introduced interesting regions, she featured portraits of different people and conveyed the disappearing professions and beauties to her audience. Her writings and impressions about the countries and regions she visited through her television programs were published in various magazines and newspapers. Her best-known published novel "A New Shiva" adapted into the movie Kampüste Çiplak Ayaklar (2009) which she also served as script writer.