Gul Tuysuz - Senior Field Producer & Director, Video Producing
Gul Tuysuz
Senior Field Producer & Director, Video Producing
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Turkish police investigating after family on holiday dies in suspected poisoningNov 19, 2025Turkish police are investigating after a vacationing family of four died of suspected poisoning in Istanbul. -
Russia and Ukraine agree prisoner swap, but little other progress in Istanbul talksJul 23, 2025Negotiators for the warring sides in Istanbul appeared to make little progress on ceasefire terms or a possible summit between their presidents – with their meeting ending after less than an hour. -
Kurdish PKK militants burn weapons in landmark step to end decades-long Turkey conflictJul 11, 2025A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end to a conflict with the Turkish state that’s lasted nearly five decades and cost tens of thousands of lives. -
Turkish police detain four cartoonists after image authorities say depicts the Prophet Mohammed sparks protestsJul 1, 2025Turkish police detained at least four cartoonists on Monday accused of drawing and distributing a cartoon that authorities and protesters say is a depiction of the Prophet Mohammed and Moses. -
Second round of Russia-Ukraine peace talks ends swiftly with no major breakthroughJun 2, 2025Russian and Ukrainian delegates met in Istanbul on Monday for their second set of direct peace talks, a day after Kyiv launched a shock drone attack on Russia’s nuclear-capable bombers, in an operation that President Volodymyr Zelensky said was a year and a half in the making. -
Turkey begins mass trials following protests over Istanbul mayor’s detentionApr 18, 2025Turkey started hastily organized mass trials on Friday to prosecute some of the hundreds of people who took part in the widespread demonstrations over the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the major rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. -
Turkey detains Istanbul’s mayor, a key rival of President ErdoganMar 20, 2025Turkish authorities detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu – a key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – on Wednesday as part of corruption and terrorism investigations. -
Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to peace treaty after nearly four decades of warMar 13, 2025But hurdles remain. Azerbaijan also said Armenia’s constitution must “eliminate the claims against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan,” as a prerequisite to allow for the signing of the peace treaty. -
Zelensky calls US-Ukraine minerals deal a ‘framework’ as it emerges agreement has no security guaranteesFeb 26, 2025Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says a proposed deal with the United States on natural resources is a “framework,” and he will want to discuss the countries’ relationship further in person with President Donald Trump, as a draft of the text obtained by CNN shows it does not provide Kyiv explicit security guarantees. -
US and Ukraine agree to terms on natural resources and reconstruction deal, Ukrainian official saysFeb 26, 2025President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to travel to Washington, DC in the coming days, after the United States and Ukraine agreed to terms on a deal over natural resources and reconstruction, according to a Ukrainian official. -
Dozens killed as fire breaks out at ski resort hotel in northwestern TurkeyJan 22, 2025Dozens of people were killed after a fire ripped through a ski resort hotel in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday, forcing desperate holidaymakers to leap from windows to escape from the flames and smoke. -
Exclusive: Dealing with Assad’s toxic legacy, one secret chemical lab at a timeJan 3, 2025People in the Jaramana suburb of Damascus always thought something strange was happening at the nearby state security facility. Walled off and heavily guarded, the government compound was off limits to anyone but the regime forces. -
Syrian rebel leader says goal is to ‘overthrow’ Assad regimeDec 6, 2024The goal of Syria’s rebel coalition, as it wrests another major city from government control this week, is ultimately to overthrow authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad, according to Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the militant leader of the main group driving the country’s armed opposition. -
Russia counterattacks against Ukraine in Kursk border regionSep 12, 2024Russia has launched a counter-attack in the Kursk border region where Ukrainian forces last month launched a surprise cross-border incursion. -
Members of Turkish national youth organization in custody after assault on US MarinesSep 3, 2024More than a dozen members of a Turkish national youth organization were taken into custody in Turkey after local authorities say they assaulted two US Marines. -
Turkey’s understated Olympic shooter Yusuf Dikeç bags silver medal and goes viral for ‘insane aura’Aug 1, 2024In a competition where athletes generally use lots of fancy equipment, Turkey’s Yusuf Dikeç went viral for his nonchalance in the air pistol mixed team final on Tuesday.
About
Gul Tuysuz is an award-winning journalist and currently serves as Senior Field Producer and Director of Video Producing based out of CNN’s Istanbul bureau.
Tuysuz was on the ground in Kyiv before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, preparing the network for what would become Europe’s largest war since World War II. She has continued to lead and contribute to CNN’s Ukraine coverage, which has been recognized with the RTS Television Journalism Award, the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia Award, and an Emmy Award.
She has also covered Syria since the start of its civil war in 2011. Drawing on her deep knowledge of the country, Tuysuz most recently produced the AIB Award–winning interview with then-rebel leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani and secured CNN’s position as the first foreign network to enter Syria as the rebel offensive advanced.
Tuysuz played a key role in managing and producing CNN’s duPont-Columbia Award–winning coverage of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
An exclusive CNN investigation produced by Tuysuz on Muslim majority countries deporting Chinese Uyghurs back to China was cited by the United States Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee in June in 2021.
Tuysuz also gained exclusive access to Turkish military operations in Northeast Syria and Turkish navy search and rescue operations for sinking migrant boats in the Aegean Sea.
At the height of Europe’s refugee crisis in 2015, Tuysuz followed and reported on refugees from Syria and Iraq as they traveled across the continent by foot, boat, and train—coverage that earned CNN an Emmy Award.
Tuysuz also produced reporting on the ethnic and sectarian cleansing of hundreds of thousands of minority Christians and Yazidis in Iraq by ISIS in 2014.
Tuysuz was a freelance producer, reporter and fixer before joining CNN full time in 2010.
Before that, she worked for NPR as an associate producer in Washington DC.
She is a graduate of Duke University. A native speaker of Turkish and English, she speaks just enough Arabic, Ukrainian, German, and French to get into trouble—but not always out of it.
