Defne Samyeli | |
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 Samyeli on Tolga Çevik's Tolgshow in 2018 | |
| Born | 17 March 1972[1] Istanbul, Turkey |
| 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 17 March 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 Ramazanoğullar 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]