Defne Samyeli

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 Ramazanogullar family. In 1991, she ranked third on Turkey's beauty pageant. Samyeli, who started his career as a journalist and graduated from Bogaziçi 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 Günes newspaper. As of May 2010 for a while she presented the program Defne Her sey Bambaska on ATV. Samyeli who worked as a columnist for Milliyet for so many years, parted her ways from the newspaper on 3 January 2015.