Nebil Özgentürk

Nebil Özgentürk (born 1959 in Adana) is a Turkish writer, journalist and director of documentaries.

Özgentürk, who is the brother of director Ali Özgentürk, graduated from the Ege Üniversitesi Faculty of Management in 1981.[1] He started journalism as a correspondent for the Günaydın newspapers' İzmir office. Later he changed to the Sabah newspaper in Istanbul. He was a war correspondent in Romania, Abhkazia and the time of the Gulf War.

In 1992, he started started to prepare short documentaries named "Bir İnsan Bir Hayat" which stemmed from the weekly portrait reports he did at the Sabah newspaper. This idea initiated from his book Bir Yudum İnsan. In later years he produced many documentaries.[2] The program named Bir Yudum İnsan which he started in 1994 on ATV and later moved to CNN Türk covered the portraits of known names in art, sports and politics with an emphasis on the lesser known facts and aspects about their lives.

Özgentürk is married and has three children.