Oray Egin

Bio

Oray Egin is a journalist based in New York and Istanbul. He's worked as a columnist in Turkish media for 15 years. His writing also appeared in Newsweek, The Daily Beast, Jerusalem Post, BuzzFeed and World Affairs.

Turkey Kurd Peace: What Lies Beneath Turkey's Peace With Kurdish Rebels?

At long last, it's peacetime in Turkey. The 30-year-old armed conflict between the Turkish state and the armed Kurdish Workers' Party, a rebel group better known as the PKK, is taking a new turn as the rebels withdrew from Turkey and headed into…

Rüzgar Erkoçlar: Sex Change Operation Tests Turkey's Limits Of Tolerance

The most-talked about celebrity in Turkey these days is a 26-year-old actor named Rüzgar Erkoçlar. The actor’s career had started at age 10, followed by a popular sanitary pad commercial at 15 that lead the way to stardom. But what has…