Born in 1981 in Eskişehir, Yavuz worked as a reporter and editor specializing in ecology in a number of magazines, newspapers and TV channels. After completing her master’s degree in journalism at Marmara University, she became a PhD candidate at the same university in 2012. Her book Beni Akkuyu’larda Merdivensiz Bıraktın– Türkiye’nin Nükleerle İmtihanı (You Abandoned Me in a Nuclear Pit: Turkey Tested with Nuclear Energy) was released in February 2015.