Writer/journalist Asli Pelit (Istanbul, 1977) moved to Cuba in 2002 after completing her BA in journalism at New York University. She completed her Master's degree in Latin American Socio-Economic Development at La Universidad de la Habana and moved to Uruguay, where she worked as an editor at Real World Radio. She is the author of the books Siempre Havana (MB publications, 2006) and Buenos Aires: The Big Apple of the South (MB) which is due for release in November of 2007. Asli works as Latin America correspondent for NTV of Turkey, a privately-owned national news channel which is a reliable news source in her homeland. She has been contributing to Free Speech Radio News since 2006.