About Oben Özaydın Oben Özaydın (born 1966) is a Turkish Muslim columnist, who argues both against imperialism and every kind of terrorism. In 1985 his first article was published in the newspaper Hakimiyet. He graduated from the International Relations Department of Istanbul University in 1990. At the same year he has worked in the newspaper Zaman as a diplomacy correspondent. He has worked in private sector for many years but not as a journalist. He turned to journalism in 2001 and worked in the newspaper Boğaz (published in Çanakkale) as a columnist. Many of his articles were also published in the local newspapers of Istanbul. At last he found an opportunity to work as a columnist in a nationwide newspaper Dokuz Sütun. He is also a columnist in a leading online newspaper. According to *http://www.gazeteler1.com he is in the top twenty most read columnists in Turkey.