Hasan Piker

LOS ANGELES – OCT 09: Piker arrives for the ‘Jane’ Los Angeles Premiere on October 9, 2017 in Hollywood, CA, DFree/Bigstock.com

Birth Name: Hasan Doğan Piker

Place of Birth: New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.

Date of Birth: July 25, 1991

Ethnicity: Turkish

Hasan Piker, also known as HasanAbi, is a Turkish-American online/Twitch streamer and left-wing political commentator. He was a broadcast journalist and producer at The Young Turks, and wrote columns for HuffPost. He is one of the most-viewed and -subscribed-to Twitch streamers, covering news, video games, and politics.

Hasan was born in New Jersey, to Turkish parents, and was raised in Istanbul, Turkey for a time, before moving back to the U.S., to Miami, Florida for college. His father, Mehmet Behçet Piker, is a political scientist and economist; Mehmet is a founding member of the Turkish right-wing Future Party, and was on the Board of Directors, and Vice-President, of industrial and financial conglomerate Sabancı Holding. His uncle is political commentator Cenk Uygur.