Ali Çimen

Ali Çimen is a Turkish-Dutch author and journalist.

Career

Born in Istanbul in 1971, Ali Çimen studied English language and literature at Istanbul University and graduated in 1995.
He worked for the international Turkish dailies Zaman (newspaper) and Today's Zaman from 1993 to 2009, serving as reporter, editor, chief of the foreign news desk in İstanbul and as an international correspondent in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and London. Between 2010 and 2014 he worked for Euronews in France and took a break from journalism in 2015.
He has interviewed many political and social celebrities including Bill Clinton, Shakira, Edwin Buzz Aldrin, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Greg Olsen, Mordechai Vanunu, William S. Cohen, Robert Ballard and Brad Pitt.
He has written numerous books ranging from popular history to secret services and space exploration.
His first novel, a political thriller, was published by Timas Publishing Group in 2013.
Çimen graduated from Anadolu University's Department of International Relations in 2021, and completed a master's degree at İstanbul Nişantaşı University in 2025 with a thesis titled "The Birth, Development, and Transformation of German Nationalism from the Middle Ages to the Present." Currently residing in both Turkey and Germany, he continues to write novels and history books.