Senay Ozdemir
Senay Özdemir is a Dutch-Turkish journalist and women's rights advocate. She has published op-eds in newspapers around the world on topics ranging from feminist politics to virginity among older brides. In Europe, she's a familiar face on television and magazines.
Özdemir, the first Turkish tv-host and tv-producer in Europe, founded the monthly woman's magazine SEN (demographic: Mediterranean women aged 20-35 living in the Netherlands). The magazine aimed at young women in the Netherlands who, like herself, have mediterranean backgrounds and must find their place in a liberal, post-religious European world. As editor-in-chief, she wrote an advice column, addressing women's questions on topics from birth control to how to ask their boss for a raise. SEN was elected “Best New Magazine of 2004” by the leading Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant.
Özdemir and her work have been profiled in many Dutch and European magazines, but also in the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times, Foreign Policy and Austin American Statesman. She was guest editor in chief of other magazines as Viva and Intermediair.
She spoke on numerous conferences. She was jurymember of the Prague International Human Rights Documentary Festival, judging 40 films about human rights. She attended the first WISE-congress in New York as part of hundred most influential muslim women in the world. She spoke at the International Women's Conference in Bangalore, India and she participated at the SAVE-platform in Vienna, as women against terrorism.
She interviewed many distinguished and famous people as the Dutch prime minister Balkenende, former Miss World Azra Akin, topmodel Frederique van der Wal, Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, publicist Paul Scheffer, scholar Marion van San and worlds youngest CEO Suhas Gopinath.
Ozdemir has lived in Austin since December as a visiting lecturer at the University of Texas, where she taught an online journalism class.
In June, 2009 her first novel, De Harsclub (The Waxclub), is published which is the first Turkish chicklit in Europe. With this novel, the press called her the muslim Carrie Bradshaw and the novelis being touted as the Mediterranean version of "Sex and the City."
She is currently working on her second English novel.
Latest Articles
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Brain drain could lead to window of opportunity
While Western companies find it harder and harder to find sufficiently educated engineers and technicians Turkey is facing with an opposite problem: it's youth policy.
Nov 20, 2009
- Senay Ozdemir
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Accession of Turkey to the European Union
On October 3, 2005 Turkey finally entered formal negotiations with the EU. But much has changed since that date, when the accession to EU still seemed of great importance
Nov 18, 2009
- Senay Ozdemir
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The Netherlands Champion in Part-time Work
Three out of four Dutch women work part-time. It is not because they are parents and cannot afford childcare. Older women and women without children do the same
Oct 22, 2009
- Senay Ozdemir
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