What to know about Democratic presidential candidate Cenk Uygur

Cenk Uygur is a progressive online political commentator known for co-creating "The Young Turks."

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Cenk Uygur was born on March 21, 1970, in Istanbul, Turkey.

Uygur is a progressive political commentator and known for co-creating "The Young Turks," an online news show that touts it is the "largest online progressive news show in the world."

Uyguy worked as an attorney in Washington, D.C., and New York before beginning his career as a political commentator. Uygur first appeared on MSNBC as a political commentator in 2010, and then hosted a commentary show. Later, he moved to Current TV to do a show that aired from 2011 until 2013.

In January 2017 he launched what he called a new wing of the Democratic Party, the Justice Democrats, to execute, in his words, a "hostile takeover" of the party establishment.