Defne Samyeli was born in Istanbul on July 1, 1972, as the daughter of an admiral father from Istanbul and a mother from Adana's Ramazanoğulları family, who received hotel management education. He was a news presenter at Haber. He was awarded two international awards for his different news presentation style in Kanal D Main News. He was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2000, underwent surgery in New York and returned to Turkey after convalescence. In 2002, he started working as a columnist for the newspaper Güneş. . From May 2010, she presented the program called Her Şey Bamkazan, which was broadcast on ATV for a while. In 2013, she started to write a column for Milliyet newspaper again. He parted ways with Milliyet newspaper in January 2015.