At Zarrab trial, citizen journalist raises ire of Turkish media
A lone citizen journalist covering the case of Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab in New York is stirring anger among Turkish media for her candid and nontraditional reporting.
Can one person change the dreary, despondent state of Turkish media?
Zeynep (Zeyno) Erkan, a Turkish woman living in New York, did just that with her reporting on the US court case against Iranian-Turkish gold trader Reza Zarrab.
I learned of Erkan a few days before the trial started in November. At the time, I had the impression that she was an independent journalist. But it's more accurate to call her a citizen journalist.
Erkan, 37, provides a brief biography of herself in a YouTube video. She graduated in 2003 from Istanbul's Bogazici University with a degree in international relations, then worked in various European cities. She now works for the United Nations in New York.
