Lale Kemal (Sariibrahimoglu) is a columnist for the English-language daily Today's Zaman. She has also been the Turkey correspondent for the UK-based Jane's Defence Weekly since 1991. She has written two books, one in Turkish on the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline and one in English on the Turkish defense industry. The Istanbul think tank Tesev published two separate and comprehensive analyses by her on the Turkish military and on the Turkish Court of Accounts and military expenditures.