Ersan Özer

Ersan Özer, who was born in Hadımköy district of Istanbul in 1969, received education in the field of communication and stepped into the media world from an early age. After graduating from Anadolu University, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Department of Advertising and Public Relations, he started his journalism career. He worked as a reporter in publications such as Aktüel and Gazetepazar and later switched to television.

He took his first important steps in television with the program Şok, which was broadcast on ATV screens and brought fake news to the agenda. He was part of the concept development team of this program and served as a writer for two seasons. Then, he worked as a writer in 50 episodes of the Television Child program prepared by Okan Bayülgen. He also directed Beyaz Show, presented by Beyazıt Öztürk, for two seasons.

He wrote the book Urban Legends, published by Parantez Publications in 1998. In the book, he brought together the urban legends he compiled from both Türkiye and the world with the readers. He started working as an editor at NTV news center in 1999 and soon turned to internet entrepreneurship. The site confess.com, which he established during this period, attracted great attention in a short time and took Özer to a new era in his media career.

In 2002, he started writing daily articles in Akşam newspaper under the title Hayat Okulu. She also prepared a column for women in the women's supplement of the same newspaper under the pseudonym Hale Gür. In 2002, he directed and wrote the program Ti Show hosted by Haluk Bilginer and Zuhal Olcay.

After handing over confession.com to EBI, which owns Siberalem.com and ideefixe, in 2004, he continued as the site editor for a year. In the same years, he and Alper Mestçi prepared hidden camera programs called Radar for TRT and Pusu for Kanal D.