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= Ertan Karpazli = Ertan Karpazli is a journalist from London, United Kingdom. He has worked for TRT World and MyLondon, and has been published in several online publications and newspapers.

Early Life
Ertan was born in Enfield, North London, to a British mother and Turkish Cypriot father. He spent most of his childhood growing up in Walthamstow, East London, where he attended South Grove Primary School and Kelmscott Secondary School. He completed his A Levels at Sir George Monoux College Sixth-Form before going on to study Creative and Media Writing at Middlesex University.

Career
In 2010, Ertan moved to Istanbul, Turkey. He soon started working for World Bulletin, the English-language service of online news portal Dunya Bulteni. In 2014, he joined TRT World, Turkey's new state-run public broadcaster. After four years with the company, Ertan began working as a freelancer. He led on an independent investigation into the 2017 murders of Istanbul-based Syrian opposition activist Orouba Barakat and her American-born daughter Halla Barakat, a former colleague and close friend of Ertan. His research into the double murder was later adopted by journalists from ABC News and Reveal, which in 2020 released an award-winning television documentary and radio podcast about the case. Ertan was featured on both productions. In 2019, Ertan returned to London, and a while later started working for MyLondon as a reporter. Despite parting ways with MyLondon in 2023, Ertan continues to write for various platforms, particularly about geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean. In January 2020, he founded his own platform dedicated to geopolitical analysis from the region, anming it Radio EastMed. He has also presented programmes on Euro Genc TV, and has made a number of appearances on other channels including Pakistan-based IndusNews.

Ertan is also the co-founder of Cezire Association, a non-profit dedicated to the research and representation of Turkish Cypriot cultural heritage in Cyprus.

Personal Life
Ertan is a life-long Tottenham Hotspur F.C. supporter. As a boy he trained with Leyton Orient, initially as a goalkeeper and then as a defender. He continued to play amateur league football into his mid-20s until an ankle injury forced him to stop playing competitively.