Asena Günal (*1973) worked as an editor at İletişim Publishing House from 1998 to 2005. She became the program coordinator of Depo from September 2008 on. Günal is a co-founder of Siyah Bant, a research platform that documents censorship cases in the arts in Turkey, and was a fellow of the AHDA Program at Columbia University in 2014. She is currently the executive director of Anadolu Kültür. Günal is the 2019 German-French Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law laureate.
