Gülhan Şen

Gülhan Şen — Biography

The travel programme Gülhan'ın Galaksi Rehberi, built around trips abroad, is the work most tied to the name of Turkish television presenter, producer and director Gülhan Şen. She ran it on TV8 for six years and then continued it under the same name on TRT Haber. She was born in Bulgaria and came to Turkey in 1989 during the forced migration imposed on Bulgaria's Turkish minority.

After Kabataş High School she studied radio and television at the Communication Faculty of Istanbul University and took a course in news and programme production at Reuters in London. Her early television work was at HBB, BRT, Star TV and CNN Türk. After directing the documentaries Türk Sineması 2003 and Sis Bulutunun Ardında: Alzheimer, she prepared and presented Zamanın Ruhu on TV8 and also fronted the game show Bayanlar Baylar. Gülhan'ın Galaksi Rehberi began on 3 October 2007 and left TV8 in 2013, the period in which her association with Acun Ilıcalı also ended. The programme restarted on TRT Haber on 31 December 2014 and ran until 6 May 2016.

She has also acted, appearing in the films Mustafa Hakkında Herşey (2004) and Kanalizasyon (2009) and playing Deniz in the series İşler Güçler. She is married to the director Alper Mestçi.