Rabia Kazan

Rabia Özden Kazan was born in Malatya the 25th of June 1976. She started her career as a TV reporter in 1996 with "Later hosting Istanbul", for "Turkish Flash Tv". Then she became a journalist for Turkish newspaper Ortadoğu, where she stayed for six years. Meanwhile she became famous in Turkey through an important interview to the terrorist Mehmet Ali Ağca, who tried to kill pope John Paul II. Then she founded the magazine Haber Revizyon and she is still editor-in-chief of that one. In 2007, she wrote a reportage on female condition in Tehran, titled "Tahran Melekleri" ("Angels of Tehran"), where she talk about temporary marriage ("mut‘a"), too, that hides, often, a sort of legal prostitution. That work generated soon reactions in Middle East and in Turkey.