Celebrity Biographies
Biography of Cenk Uygur
| Date of Birth: | 1970, March 21 |
|---|---|
| Years: | 50 years old |
| Nation of birth: | United States of America |
| Height: | 5 feet 7 inches |
| Name | Cenk Uygur |
| birth name | Cenk Kadir Uygur |
| Nationality | Turkish-American |
| Place of birth / city | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Religion | Atheist |
| ethnicity | Turquoise-Muslim |
| Profession | Columnist |
| Net worth | $5 million |
| eye color | Dark brown |
| Hair color | Black |
| weight in kg | N/A |
| Married | Yes |
| Married to | Wendy Lang |
| Kids | Joy Helena Uygur, Prometheus Maximus Uygur |
| Education | Columbia Law School, University of Pennsylvania |
| tv show | The Young Turks, The Dylan Ratigan Show |
Cenk Uygur is a Turkish-American columnist, commentator, and political activist who is the co-founder of the talk show. The Young Turks and he is also a co-founder of the TYT Network . His channel The Young Turks has more than 4.37 million subscribers who have surpassed 4,182,415.13 video views. He worked as a political commentator for the MSNBC network from 2010-11. Subsequently, he worked for Current TV from 2011-13. He was a Republican before 2000 and became a partisan Independent from 2000-16 and became a Democrat in 2016.
Early life, biography and education of Cenk Uygur
Cenk Uygur was born into a Turkish family in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 21, 1970, in Istanbul, Turkey. He is of Turkish and American nationality and regarding his ethnicity, Uygur is of mixed ethnicity.
Cenk was born in Turkey and immigrated to New Jersey with his family at the age of eight. He graduated from East Brunswick High School and, despite being raised Muslim, became an agnostic.
He majored in management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also earned a law degree from Columbia Law School and worked as an associate attorney at the law firms of Drinker Biddle and Reath and Hayes and Liebman.
Lifestyle and career of Cenk Uygur
He appeared as a talk show host and began his career, first on the WWRC radio show and then on WRKO in Boston. He also wrote as a columnist for WAMI-TV and started The Young Turks show on Sirius Satellite Radio.
He began having an affair with marriage and family therapist Wendy Lang. they eventually married, but the actual date of marriage is unknown. He has a daughter and a son with his wife who were born in 2012 and 2010 respectively.
The couple seems to be getting along quite well and does not appear to be having any marital problems and does not appear to be moving towards a divorce. He isn’t involved with anyone else and therefore there are no cheating issues between them and they certainly seem to get along pretty well.
Age and height of Cenk Uygur
- The age of Cenk Uygur in 2019 is 49 years.
- Height: He is 1.74 m (5 ft 7 in).