Gul Tuysuz is an award-profitable journalist and presently serves as Senior Field Producer and Director of Video Producing primarily based out of NCS’s Istanbul bureau.
Tuysuz was on the bottom in Kyiv earlier than Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, making ready the community for what would grow to be Europe’s largest battle since World War II. She has continued to guide and contribute to NCS’s Ukraine protection, which has been acknowledged with the RTS Television Journalism Award, the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia Award, and an Emmy Award.
She has additionally lined Syria for the reason that begin of its civil battle in 2011. Drawing on her deep information of the nation, Tuysuz most not too long ago produced the AIB Award–profitable interview with then-insurgent chief Abu Mohammad al-Jolani and secured NCS’s place as the primary overseas community to enter Syria because the insurgent offensive superior.
Tuysuz performed a key position in managing and producing NCS’s duPont-Columbia Award–profitable protection of the homicide of Jamal Khashoggi contained in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
An unique NCS investigation produced by Tuysuz on Muslim majority nations deporting Chinese Uyghurs again to China was cited by the United States Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee in June in 2021.
Tuysuz additionally gained unique entry to Turkish navy operations in Northeast Syria and Turkish navy search and rescue operations for sinking migrant boats within the Aegean Sea.
At the peak of Europe’s refugee disaster in 2015, Tuysuz adopted and reported on refugees from Syria and Iraq as they traveled throughout the continent by foot, boat, and prepare—protection that earned NCS an Emmy Award.
Tuysuz additionally produced reporting on the ethnic and sectarian cleaning of a whole lot of hundreds of minority Christians and Yazidis in Iraq by ISIS in 2014.
Tuysuz was a contract producer, reporter and fixer earlier than becoming a member of NCS full time in 2010.
Before that, she labored for NPR as an affiliate producer in Washington DC.
She is a graduate of Duke University. A local speaker of Turkish and English, she speaks simply sufficient Arabic, Ukrainian, German, and French to get into hassle—however not all the time out of it.