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Our Team

FOUNDER & PRODUCER

BENAN KEPSUTLU

She graduated from Yeditepe University Department of Political Science and International Relations and Yeditepe University Department of Radio TV Cinema. Between 1991 and 2001, he studied Italian Culture and completed his Italian language education at the Romenica School in Modena, Italy. She specialized in the Middle East with a Master’s Degree at Marmara University Institute of Middle Eastern Studies. Kepsutlu continued his PhD at Marmara University Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Middle Eastern Political History and International Relations as a special student.

He started his journalism career in 1999 at TRT Ankara News Center. After his experience at TV-8 news center in 2002, he worked as a reporter at Kanal D News and CNN Türk under Mehmet Ali Birand and was accepted to BBC News in London to study television journalism. Kepsutlu established TRT Türk’s Erbil bureau and became its first representative. In 2010, he transferred to Habertürk as News Editor and Program Presenter. During his tenure as a reporter and anchor, Kepsutlu has produced nearly 30 “First in the World” and “First in Turkey” news and file news.

In the first period of its inauguration, Kepsutlu prepared and presented the morning segment on A Haber, and since 2010, he has been the producer and host of the Agenda Program on Habertürk, as well as a news anchor and editor. As a journalist, Mr. Kepsutlu has worked in Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Georgia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Egypt during times of war and has also worked in critical periods in more than twenty countries such as Armenia, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, Malaysia and Kyrgyzstan. He has conducted exclusive interviews with many leaders in Turkey and around the world.

Benan Kepsutlu started her academic career at Yeditepe University in 2015. Between 2016 and 2021, she taught undergraduate and graduate students at Bahçeşehir University’s Political Science and International Relations and New Media departments.

Since 2016, Kepsutlu has been working as a Strategic Communication and Media consultant for NATO exercises. During this period, Kepsutlu’s academic study “US Middle East Policy: President to President from 1990 to the Present” was published as his first book. Kepsutlu’s book “Confessions Hidden in the Archive” was the first and only book to be awarded by the Turkish Archivists Association.

General Coordinator

NAZLI BİLGİN

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT & SALES MARKETING MANAGER

ÖZGÜR UÇANOK

He was born in Karabük in 1975 and completed his primary, secondary and high school education there. After graduating from Ankara University, Department of Chemistry, she did e-MBA at Bilgi University.

Since 2002, she has been working as a Resource Development and Event Consultant in order to develop donation resources for TOG volunteers and the foundation; (https://www.tog.org.tr/tog-bazar/), in the projects Gönülden Sahneler (Scenes from the Heart), Gönülden Konuşhetler (Conversations from the Heart), Gönülden Geziler (Trips from the Heart), TOG BAZAR (Trips from the Heart) and one-off events organized with volunteer business partners; she actively took part in organizing the events, producing and supervising the flow content, ensuring media communications, reaching corporate donors and conducting communication with donors.

Since 2020, she has been a professional real estate consultant in the Coldwell Banker system and has developed her sales and marketing techniques thanks to her circle of influence. As a project coordinator in the Asian production company, he is involved in project development and sales.
Özgür, who also has a blog called www.eyvahbosandim.com, has 2 children.

CORPORATE COMMUNICATION MANAGER

GÜLAY RENÇBER

Born on 30.09.1973 in Sakarya, he lived here until the end of high school. He studied Chemical Engineering at Istanbul University.
After graduation, he worked in Production Departments in Factories for 3 years. Then, for 10 years, he reached hundreds of thousands of people with the consumption and distribution networks he established in 4 different Network Marketing companies and received Best Distributor degrees. For 1 year, he did his own business, the most expensive education of his life. Simultaneously, he worked as a Consultant in different sectors for 10 years. He took 4 years of Communication trainings and worked as a Trainer.

In 2012, he met an International Healthy Living company working with New Generation e-Commerce and took an active role in the establishment of Turkey and continues to do so. During this time, he got to know 19 countries and their people. In 22 years of business life, he has seen both the bottom and the top.

Years later, he decided to get out of the brackets and renew himself and became an I.U. Recreation student. In parallel with this, from the meaning of his name to his vision, he shook hands with Asya Production with the mission of enlightenment development. His life goal; He believes that a lot of good can be done by smiling and enlightening…

TV PROGRAMS COORDINATOR & CREATIVE DIRECTOR

YASEMİN ÇEKİÇ

Born in 1982 in Istanbul, she graduated from Anadolu University, Department of Radio TV Cinema and completed her master’s degree on Cinema at Beykent University. Yasemin Çekiç, who has 2 short films and 3 documentaries, started her career as a producer and assistant director at TRT television in 2000.

For many years, she worked as a director, creative director, program coordinator in television channels such as Habertürk TV, Show TV and various production companies and implemented many television programs.

During this period, he gave lectures on film production and presentation techniques in educational institutions. Continuing his professional life as a freelancer for a while, the experienced television producer joined Asya Yapım Production as a program coordinator.

Executive Producer / Documentary

UTKU BAŞAR

DRAMA & DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR

GÖKSEL GÜLENSOY

He was born on March 9, 1962 in Istanbul.
After working as an assistant to Ertem Eğilmez, Metin Erksan and Halit Refiğ, he started working as a cameraman and video editor at TRT Istanbul Television in 1985.

He shot and directed many documentary films for ShowTV, Cine5, NTV and CNNTURK.

Göksel Gülensoy won various awards in Turkey and abroad for the documentary films he directed.

His research on Hagia Sophia was the subject of the last book of Dan Brown, one of the world’s most famous writers. In 2022, he received many international awards for his documentary film “Mrs. Sadan”.

EVENT COORDINATOR

GÖKHAN UĞURLU

He was born in Izmir in October 1979. In 1994, he enrolled in the Military Harmony School, one of the few schools in the world where the discipline required to learn and teach an instrument can be obtained. In this school, he took Drum, Tumba, Bongo, Darbuka, Cajon, Bendir, Timbal, Timpani, Silaphone, Guitar, Electric Guitar, Note, Harmony, Solfege lessons and successfully graduated from the school.

In the continuation of his education, he took technical and practical lessons from many teachers and took these trainings into his knowledge treasure to share with his students in his future life.

After maximizing his stage experience with many artists and orchestras in the first years of his art life, he started to use his educational features and to meet with music lovers who have a heart for music.

The artist, who first started his rhythm instructor career at Akçatepe Art Center founded by Halit Akçatepe, has been on many theater stages with the master actor and has undertaken the music production of his theaters.

PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER

EMRAH OTYAKMAZ

A Professional Combining Graphics and Digital Emrah Otyakmaz, a graduate of Yıldız Technical University Graphic Design, is a photographer who has realized various projects in Turkey and abroad with EMR PHOTOGRAPH brand.

Otyakmaz, who took part in various agencies in Turkey as “Marka, Haldun Evecan, Bena ADV” art director and continued his creative journey by establishing the Flying Group Design Studio brand, took fashion, product, image photos for various magazines and brands “Platin Magazine, Sefa Merve, Yemek Zevki, Charm & Beauty, North Cyprus United Kingdom, Hyatt Istanbul, Moral Moda Monaco, John Paul Ataker New York”, and participated in international social responsibility projects. Drugs kill, Plastic is killing the world, Whirling dervish Istanbul”. He worked with artists and celebrities such as Mercan Dede, Oylum Talu, Tuğba Özyurt…

VOICE ARTIST

UĞUR BAYRAM

Uğur Bayram Gitgel – Voice actor, newscaster, TV producer and TV editor, poet, animal lover.

He studied at Çukurova University, Department of Mechanical-Painting Construction. Years later, he graduated from Anadolu University Open Education Faculty’s Public Relations (associate degree), Business Administration (bachelor’s degree) and Radio and TV Programming (associate degree) departments respectively. He is currently studying in the final year of the Department of Veterinary Technical Laboratories at the same university.

In 1992, with the establishment of private radios, he took his place in radio programming.

In those years, he made poetry programs on Radio 2000. He worked as a program producer, news announcer and editor in Afyon, Gaziantep, Istanbul and İzmit radios respectively.

He started his career in television broadcasting and production in Gaziantep in 1995. He worked as a program producer, presenter and manager in regional Yaprak and local Hisar TV. For a long time, he was the Lost Investigator of Sinan Çetin’le Film Gibi program, which is a screen classic, and he broke a record by finding hundreds of missing people.

In 2004, he started working as a program editor at Kanal D television.

During the same period, he became the voice of Kanal D Main News in the news team of Mehmet Ali Birand and Ayşenur Arslan. Between 2008 and 2012, Uğur Bayram also worked as a news anchor for Euro D and Euro Star, and for a while he worked as the format owner of the program ‘Ebru Gündeş ile Dön Ne Olur’ on Star TV.

He gave diction – announcer and effective speech trainings in various educational institutions.

He worked as a columnist in Özgür Kocaeli newspaper, which is published in Kocaeli region, between 2001 and 2016.

Uğur Bayram, who has worked as a program and promotional voice actor in many televisions such as TRT, Kanal D, Star, ATV, Show TV, Now TV, Kanal 7, Teve2, also continues to give diction – announcer and effective speech trainings.

VOICE ARTIST

MERT TALAT

DIRECTOR

ERAY YENİGÜN

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

AKIN DEPECİK

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

FERHAT KILIÇ

EDITING DIRECTOR & GRAPHIC DESIGNER

MİRZA YILMAZ

He started his career as a news editor in the early 2000s.

During the same period, he became the voice of Kanal D Main News in the news team of Mehmet Ali Birand and Ayşenur Arslan. Between 2008 and 2012, Uğur Bayram also worked as a news anchor for Euro D and Euro Star, and for a while he worked as the format owner of the program ‘Ebru Gündeş ile Dön Ne Olur’ on Star TV.

He is currently working as an editing director and graphic designer in the Agenda program within Asya Production Production.

EDITING DIRECTOR, GRAPHIC DESIGNER

MUSTAFA İDACI