Rabia Kazan

Who is Rabia Kazan?

Rabia Özden Kazan is a Turkish journalist.

She started her career as a TV reporter in 1996 with Later hosting Istanbul, for the Turkish channel Flash TV. Then, she became a journalist for the Nationalist Movement Party affiliated newspaper Ortadoğu, where she worked for six years. Meanwhile, she became famous in Turkey through an important interview to the terrorist Mehmet Ali Ağca, who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981. She was a fiancee of Ağca engaged 2004 in the Kartal Prison while he was incarcenated. Then, she founded the magazine Haber Revizyon.

In 2007, she wrote a reportage on female condition in Tehran, Iran titled Tahran Melekleri, in which she talks about temporary marriage, too, that hides often a sort of legal prostitution. That work generated soon reactions in the Middle East.

In 2008, she married to Giacinto Licursi, Italian lawyer, politician and member of Italian Communist Party.