Rabia Kazan

Rabia Kazan
Born Rabia Özden Kazan
25 June 1976
Malatya, Turkey
Nationality Turkish
Occupation Journalist, writer
Years active 1996 — present
Partner(s) Giacinto Licursi

Rabia Özden Kazan (born June 25, 1976 in Malatya, Turkey) is a Turkish journalist.

Career

She started her career as a TV reporter in 1996 with Later hosting Istanbul, for the Turkish channel Flash TV. Then, she became a journalist for the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) affiliated newspaper Ortadoğu, where she worked for six years. Meanwhile, she became famous in Turkey through an important interview to the terrorist Mehmet Ali Ağca, who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981. Then, she founded the magazine Haber Revizyon.

In 2007, she wrote a reportage on female condition in Tehran, Iran titled Tahran Melekleri ("The Angels of Tehran"), in which she talks about temporary marriage (Arabic: Nikah mut‘ah‎), too, that hides often a sort of legal prostitution. That work generated soon reactions in the Middle East.[1]

In 2008, she married to Giacinto Licursi, Italian lawyer, politician and member of Italian Communist Party.[2][3][4]

In 2012 she took her veil off and she received death threats because of that reason. [5]

She was in 2012 a volunteer at WFUNA (World Federation of United Nations Associations).

References

  1. ↑ Rabia Kazan racconta la schiavitù delle donne rivist@, 6 March 2009 (Italian)
  2. ↑ "Rabia'nın büyük değişimi". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2012-01-29. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
  3. ↑ Milliyet, 29 January 2009, Ağca’nın eski nişanlısı başını açtı
  4. ↑ Ağca'nın eski nişanlısı Roma'da evlendi, Yeni Şafak, 17 February 2008 (Turkish)
  5. ↑ "Death threats for Turkish author Rabia Kazan for removing her veil". Before it's news.