Hamdi Firat Buyuk

Hamdi Firat Buyuk is an editor and journalist at Balkan Insight, the flagship publication of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN). He covers politics, security, and economics, with a particular focus on rights and freedoms, press freedom, democracy, and digital rights in Turkey and the Balkans. His work and commentary have appeared in Turkish, Balkan, and international media outlets, including Radikal, Gazete Duvar, PolitikYol, Euronews, Aljazeera Balkans, The Economist, and Foreign Policy. He holds an MSc in international relations from the University of Essex and speaks Turkish, English, and Bosnian.