Evrim Kepenek

Evrim Kepenek has been a journalist since 2000, working on women's rights, gender, politics and rights-based journalism. Kepenek has worked as a reporter and editor at various national and local media outlets and runs workshops on gender-sensitive journalism and reporting on gender-based violence. A founding member of the Women and LGBTI+ Commission of the Journalists' Union of Turkey (TGS), Kepenek serves on the executive board of the TGS Istanbul Branch for the 2023–2027 term. Kepenek received the Musa Anter Journalism Award (2011) and the Psychiatric Association of Turkey's Best News Award (2024), is one of the founding writers of GOR, a magazine on Hemşin culture, and contributed to the books “Yeşilden Maviye Karadeniz’den Kadın Portreleri”, “Sırtında Sepeti” and “Medya ve Yalanlar”. A graduate of Istanbul University's European Union department and Istanbul Bilgi University's International Relations department, Kepenek has been the women's news editor at bianet, a rights-based news outlet, since 2018.