Sedat Ergin, born in Istanbul in 1957, is a Turkish journalist. Ergin holds a B.A. degree in International Relations from the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University. He has been active in journalism since 1975, when he began working for the Turkish News Agency as a general assignment reporter. He served as a diplomatic reporter at the Ankara office of the daily Cumhuriyet from 1979 to 1987. In 1987, he joined Hürriyet and was assigned to Washington, D.C., where he was stationed for nearly six years. He was appointed Ankara Bureau Chief for Hürriyet in 1993, a position he held for twelve years. In March 2005, he was appointed editor-in-chief of Milliyet. He remained in this post until October 2009, when he returned to Hürriyet as a senior columnist. In August 2014, he was again appointed editor-in-chief of Hürriyet. He left this position in March 2017 and returned to writing his regular column. Ergin continued his second tenure as a columnist at Hürriyet until 19 March 2025. On 1 May 2025, he announced that he would “chart a new path” for himself and left the newspaper after 33 years. As of 1 July 2025, he joined the weekly Gazete Oksijen as a columnist. He was a regular political commentator on the NTV and CNN Türk news channels for many years. Ergin received the Sedat Simavi Journalism Award twice, in 1997 and 2003, as well as the Press Freedom Awards of the Turkish Journalists’ Association in 2010 and Deutsche Welle in 2016.