Career
He has been the managing editor of the Hürriyet Daily News, the English-language edition of Hürriyet in 2014 and 2015. He is a regular contributor for First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Monitor and The Huffington Post. His personal blog, The Istanbulian, is the first English-language blog of a Turkish journalist who works for a major newspaper.
Kızılkaya has been extensively interviewed and quoted by the international media, including The New York Times, British Broadcasting Corporation, Reuters, Corriere della Sera, Le Nouvel Observateur, Süddeutsche Zeitung, South China Morning Post, Asia Times, The Scotsman, Yedioth Ahronoth and First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera.
Numerous dignitaries that Kızılkaya interviewed for Hürriyet include international leaders like United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Presidents like Moshe Katsav and Moncef Marzouki.
Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi. Prime ministers like Gerhard Schröder and Jyrki Katainen.
Foreign ministers like Ahmet Davutoğlu and Walid Muallem.
European figures like Olli Rehn and Christian Engström. Scholars like Daron Acemoğlu and Guenter Lewy. Authors like John Ralston Saul and Joseph O"Neill.
Since 2003, Kızılkaya has also been contributing to various magazines, including Hürriyet Tarih, a weekly Turkish magazine on popular history in which more than eighty of his articles were published until 2006.
He is the Turkish translator of Angels and Jesus" Son, two books by Denis Johnson.