Banu Güven is one of Turkey’s leading women journalists, pushed out of the country’s mainstream media due to her critical approach and targeted by online smear campaigns. She was anchor of Late Night and Prime Time news at NTV for 14 years and at IMC TV for 3 years. The latter was closed down under emergency rule in 2016. She now works freelance and writes columns for Deutsche Welle Turkish, Cosmo ARD and diken.com.tr. She is the holder of the Henri Nannen Prize for her Outstanding Performance in Journalism in 2017.