
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Istanbul in 1973, Eser Turan attended Uskudar American Academy in Istanbul and received her bachelor's degree in Architecture at Istanbul Technical University.
In 1996, she was accepted to the master's program at the University of California at Berkeley and received a teaching scholarship for her two years of study.
Her master's thesis, "Thinking Design Thinking" (1998) was a pioneering study in the field of Conceptual Design, infusing key principles of philosophy, psychology, and phenomenology to create a method to design concepts for architectural projects. Her innovative method later received wide recognition in the field of Brand Design.
She taught design classes at UC Berkeley and, after graduation, worked at top architecture and interiors firms such as HOK (Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum) and IA (Interior Architects) during the Silicon Valley boom. She coordinated the office team and supervised jobsites of 100+ million dollar projects of leading global tech companies such as Nortel and Symantec for a period of six years.
In the post-9/11 period in the US, the heightened suspicion of non-Americans propelled her to define the cross-cultural identity of Turkish-Americans in a cultural magazine. With that decision, she started publishing Turkuaz Magazine and utilized her expertise in conceptual design to promote the Turkish-American community, culture and businesses in the US.
Turkuaz Magazine, published in 2002, garnered a record readership within its first year.
By 2004, Turkuaz had become the first and only Turkish-American publication to be accepted for nationwide distribution in the US and was sold in 33 states at 130 prestigious bookstores.
Essentially not a political publication, various hot topics in Turkish-American international relations helped Turkuaz Magazine to be placed in the 'current events' section of Barnes & Noble and Borders bookstores, right next to Time and Newsweek, which garnered it an average sale record of 70%.
In order to publish Turkuaz Magazine, Eser Turan started her media company, Turkuaz Productions, LLC. in the US, offering media services for Turkish-American artists, cultural events and businesses.
By 2006, the marketing needs of the magazine and news portal prompted her to start her branding company in Turkey, under the name of Ajans 869, a niche design agency serving the branding needs of Turks and Turkey worldwide.
As of 2017, Turkuaz is published online, in the form of a video-magazine, as a free digital publication, catering to the needs of the Turkish Expats worldwide.
In 2018, she launched Turkuaz Store and Turkuaz Directory as key components of Turkuaz Magazine.
In 2019, she branded the 7 million-strong Turkish community worldwide as "Turkuaz Republic", designing an online meeting platform at turkuazrepublic.com for International Turks in over 70 countries.
In 2020, she launched Nurhak Haber, as a video-magazine that aids the expatriate community on current-day politics. The publication's x.com page offers a complementary daily digest for the Turkuaz community.
In 2021, she published Anka Report, which offers a weekly digest of Turkish Diplomacy, while Anka Review monitors Türkiye's diplomatic relations daily.
Facing threats daily from FETO and PKK, she downsized the scale of these publications in 2022, following the launch of Russia's war with Ukraine. However, the threats continued regardless, only leaving clear clues that aided her in spotting the Ukraine war as a prelude to something bigger that could involve the Middle East and beyond.
In 2023, she studied the October 7 mayhem in Israel and found it timely to launch Ottomana News, a project she had originally designed in 2015, but had postponed upon the sudden incarceration of Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yücel in Türkiye, a mystery case conducted without a single indictment.
In 2024, she connected the clues and threats from that time with the many signs in the Ukraine War and October 7 attack, and launched Ottomana News, a daily review of life in the six regions and 52 countries in "the Lands of Pax Ottomana", an invisible political entity that she had heard FETO cult members target for presumably being "the soulmate empire of the United States".
Knowing this, but finding it untimely to state it openly, she published Ottomana News for 16 months, only to find clues that suggest the late Pope Francis' sudden passing was FETO's job.
Her study of the case benefited from clues she found in the sabotage of another one of her projects, namely Otuken News, a weekly video magazine on another invisible political entity, the Turkic Union at large.
In July 2025, she penned her editorial "Imminent Threat" in Ottomana News about the many clues she had gathered over the years on the deadly cult plotting to launch WW3.