Yetkin began his career as a journalist and writer in 1981 and joined the BBC World Service operation in Ankara in 1987. After working for a number of international news organizations, including Deutsche Welle and AFP, he joined the domestic press as the diplomacy and defence editor of what was then the Turkish Daily News in 1992. Yetkin subsequently joined the founding team of Turkey’s first round-the-clock news channel, NTV in 1996, established its Ankara office and assumed its Political Editor and Ankara Bureau Chief positions also producing and anchoring a weekly foreign policy show. He returned to print journalism in 2000 as the Ankara Bureau Chief of daily Sabah and then in 2001 as Ankara Bureau Chief of daily Radikal, where he also wrote regular columns on current affairs, mainly addressing politics, diplomacy, security, and the economy. In the meantime, he taught classes on ‘News writing and reporting’, ‘International relations and media’ in Bilkent University between 2002 and 2006 and joined a group of instructors for classes on ‘Economic and social structure of Turkey’ in TOBB University in 2010 and 2011. Yetkin worked as the Editor-in-Chief and the chief columnist of Hürriyet Daily News between May 2011 and October 2018, resigned to run independent bilingual news analysis and political/strategic forecast site YetkinReport. Frequently appearing on leading Turkish news channels, to comment on current affairs, political, diplomatic and security matters Yetkin is the author of seven published books on Turkey’s international relations: “Active Policy in the Ring of Fire: Turkey in the Triangle of the Balkans, the Caucasus and the Middle East” (1992); "Turkey in the Waiting Room of the European Union” (2002); "The Motion: The True Story of the Iraq Crisis” (2004); “The Book of Intrigues for the Curious" (2017); “The Book of Spies for the Curious” (2108) and the “Kurdish Trap – Öcalan from Damascus to Imrali” (2019), The Book of Coup d’Etats for the Curious” (2020), all in Turkish. A graduate of the mechanical engineering department at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Yetkin is an Eisenhower Fellow, a member of the Georgetown University Leadership Seminar Group, participant of Bilderberg Group and Ditchley Park Conferences. Born in 1959, he is married with one daughter.