Background
Nazlı Ilıcak was born 1944 to Muammer Çavuşoğlu, a politician and former government minister, and his wife İhsan in Ankara, Turkey.
Nazlı Ilıcak was born 1944 to Muammer Çavuşoğlu, a politician and former government minister, and his wife İhsan in Ankara, Turkey.
She attended TED Ankara College, completed her secondary education however at Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul.
She has a brother Ömer Çavuşoğlu. Ilıcak studied Political Science at University of Lausanne. Her husband died in 1993 due to brain-bleeding.
Ilıcak remarried one year later to Emin Şirin.
Her second marriage ended in 2003 with divorce. She entered journalism after her father"s death in 1972.
After working in various posts at Tercüman, she became publisher of the tabloid Bulvar. She later wrote for the newspapers Meydan, Hürriyet, Akşam, Yeni Şafak, Takvim, Sabah and Bugün.
Ilıcak and a dozen other prominent journalists lost their jobs in 2014 because they criticized the government.