Defne Samyeli | |
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![]() Samyeli on Tolga Çevik's Tolgshow in 2018 | |
Born | [1] | 1 July 1972
Nationality | Turkish |
Occupation(s) | TV presenter, actress, columnist, singer |
Years active | 1991–present |
Spouse | Eren Talu (m. 1995;div. 2011) |
Children | 2 [2] |
Defne Samyeli (born 1 July 1972) is a Turkish TV presenter, columnist, singer and actress.
Samyeli was born as the first child of an Istanbul admiral Haluk and hotel manager Sendegül who is from Adana's Ramazanoğullarli family. [3] In 1991, she ranked third on Turkey's beauty pageant. [4]
Samyeli, who started her career as a journalist and graduated from Boğaziçi University, was a news reporter in the main news bulletin of Kanal D under the direction of Tuncay Özkan. She received 2 international awards for her different news presentation in the main news bulletin of Kanal D. Samyeli has been a columnist for Milliyet newspaper, the editor and presenter of Show TV's main news bulletin, and a writer for Güneş newspaper. As of May 2010 for a while she presented the program Defne Her şey Bambaşka on ATV. [5] Samyeli who worked as a columnist for Milliyet for so many years, parted her ways from the newspaper on 3 January 2015. [6]