Rabia Kazan
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Rabia Özden Kazan is a city in southeastern Turkey and the capital of its eponymous province.-Overview:The city site has been occupied for thousands of years. The Assyrians called the city Meliddu. Following Roman expansion into the east, the city was renamed in Latin as Melitene...

, Turkey) is a Turkish
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 journalist
Journalist
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.

She started her career as a TV reporter in 1996 with Later hosting Istanbul, for the Turkish channel Flash TV. Then she became a journalist for the MHP
Nationalist Movement Party
The Nationalist Movement Party , is a far-right political party in Turkey.In the 2002 general elections, the party had lost its 129 seats as it had won only 8.34% of the national vote...

 affiliated newspaper Ortadoğu, where she worked for six years. Meanwhile, she became famous in Turkey
Turkey
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 through an important interview to the terrorist Mehmet Ali Ağca
Mehmet Ali Agca
Mehmet Ali Ağca is a Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist Abdi İpekçi on February 1, 1979 and later shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison. After serving 19 years of imprisonment in Italy, he was deported to Turkey, where he served a...

, who tried to assassinate Pope
Pope
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 John Paul II in 1981. Then she founded the magazine Haber Revizyon.

In 2007, she wrote a reportage on female condition in Tehran
Tehran
Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

, titled Tahran Melekleri ("Angels of Tehran"), in which she talks about temporary marriage , too, that hides, often, a sort of legal prostitution
Prostitution
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. That work generated soon reactions in Middle East
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 and in Turkey
Turkey
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.

In 2008, she married Italian
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Politician lawyer Giacinto Licursi.
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