Nuray Mert, born in Trabzon

Trabzon

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, Turkey

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 (1960), is a Turkish

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 journalist

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 and political scientist.

After graduating from Fevziye Mektepleri Işık College, she studied political science and history

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 at Boğaziçi University

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, Istanbul

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, where she obtained the master's degree

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 on a thesis entitled Prens Sabahaddin ve Terakki Mecmuası ("Prens Sabahaddin

Prens Sabahaddin

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 and Terakki Magazine"), and the doctorate

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 on a thesis entitled Erken Cumhuriyet Döneminde Laik Düşünce ("Secular Thought in the Early Republican Period"). She worked for some time as a research assistant

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 at Boğaziçi University, after which she became lecturer

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 at the Department of Economics of Istanbul University

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. She also writes for the Milliyet

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.

She used to host a TV show, but this was dropped after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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publicly criticized her.
The Association of Turkish Journalists has denounced the attacks that Mert received from Mr Erdogan.