Oben Özaydın is a Turkish Muslim columnist, who argues both against imperialism and every kind of terrorism. In 1985 his first article was published in the newspaper Hakimiyet. He graduated from the International Relations Department of Istanbul University

Istanbul University

Istanbul University is a Turkish university located in Istanbul. The main campus is adjacent to Beyazıt Square.- Synopsis :A madrasa, a religious school, was established sometime in the 15th century after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. An institution of higher education named the...

 in 1990. At the same year he has worked in the newspaper Zaman

Zaman (newspaper)

Zaman is a major, high-circulation daily newspaper in Turkey. It was founded in 1986 and was the first Turkish daily to go online in 1995. It contains national , international, business and other news...

as a diplomacy correspondent.

He has worked in private sector for many years but not as a journalist. He turned to journalism in 2001 and worked in the newspaper Boğaz (published in Çanakkale

Çanakkale

Çanakkale is a town and seaport in Turkey, in Çanakkale Province, on the southern coast of the Dardanelles at their narrowest point. The population of the town is 106,116 . The mayor is Ülgür Gökhan ....

) as a columnist. Many of his articles were also published in the local newspapers of Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

.

At last he found an opportunity to work as a columnist in a nationwide newspaper Dokuz Sütun. He is also a columnist in a leading online newspaper.

He is known as a nationalist columnist.

According to *http://www.whopopular.com he is in the top 200 popular journalists in the world.