Yalman Onaran was born in Istanbul and moved to the United States to attend the College of Woostet from which he graduated in 1991.
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Yalman Onaran earned his graduate degree from Columbia University's School of Journalism, and from its School of International and Public Affairs.
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Yalman Onaran taught in schools before he became a full-time correspondent for the Associated Press, and moved back to Ankara, Turkey in 1995 to cover wars and politics.
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Yalman Onaran found himself covering the war zones first, then switched to financial journalism.
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Yalman Onaran has worked for Bloomberg News since 1998 in various capacities including as Istanbul bureau chief and magazine writer.
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Yalman Onaran moved back to New York City in 2006, where he covered Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns when the 2008 global financial crisis hit.
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Yalman Onaran is currently a senior finance writer for Bloomberg News focusing on global and national banking, Onaran covers global banking, regulation and the politics of finance.
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Yalman Onaran's work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and numerous other publications around the world.
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Yalman Onaran is married with a son, and is an avid diver and ice skater.
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Yalman Onaran speaks and reads English, Turkish, German, Russian, Italian and Spanish.