Cenk Uygur

Epic card · No. 8074

Cenk Kadir Uygur (born March 21, 1970) is a Turkish-American left-wing political activist, commentator, and media host. He is the co-creator of The Young Turks, a progressive and a left-wing populist sociopolitical news and commentary program. Born in Istanbul, Uygur moved to the US in 1978 and studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. After a brief law practice in 1996, he hosted talk shows for WRKO, WWRC, and WAMI-TV before launching The Young Turks in 2002. Uygur briefly worked as a political commentator for MSNBC in 2011, and appeared on a weeknight commentary show on Current TV from 2011 to 2013. He founded the progressive political action committees Wolf-PAC, Justice Democrats, and Rebellion PAC. In 2020, Uygur unsuccessfully ran as a Democrat in the special election and the regularly scheduled election for California's 25th congressional district on a platform that advocated for Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and overturning Citizens United v. FEC...

Read on Wikipedia · Image Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0