Banu Güven

Banu Güven (born 1969 in Istanbul) is a Turkish journalist and television presenter.

Banu Güven visited and 1987 İstanbul Lisesi and studied International Relations at the University of Istanbul. For the journalism she has been interested in while studying. She has worked for issued in Turkey Turkish-German magazine, before she corresponded for a Swiss newspaper from Turkey.

In Turkey, she worked first for Milliyet before they NTV, a news channel in Turkey, joined, in which she worked as a reporter. Throughout her career at NTV, she hosted a variety of programs, such Hafta - Bu Hafta ( The Week - This Month), 24 seeds (24 hours) and Article (Plus), but was also seen as a news anchor.

After a scandalous for Turkey Interview with Vedat Türkali that Abdullah Öcalan sent greetings, she was released from the transmitter. In retrospect, was also known that the reason was a planned interview with the Kurdish politician Leyla Zana shortly before the general election, which is boycotted by the Turkish media. The case caused a sensation in Turkey since Banu Güven turned by means of an open letter to Prime Minister Erdogan.

Banu Güven writes regular columns since 2008 for the weekend supplement of the left-liberal newspaper radical.

She speaks her native language Turkish and German, French and English. She is married to the architect Aykut Dokur.