Interview #24: Taha Akyol (plus int.s 20-23)
I interviewed Taha Akyol in his office at CNN-TURK today. He is one of most senior columnists of Turkish press. At the moment he regularly writes for Milliyet and produces a weekly political interview/commentary program for CNN-TURK. He is also the vice president of the latter at the moment.
Mr Akyol gave me his autographed book. That's a selection of his published articles that were related to EU-TR relations...
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Interviews 20-23 below...
March 21, 2007
Interview #23: A bureaucrat in Ankara
Article 657 does not allow civil servants to talk to the press and public openly. So i cannot disclose his/her name here though the interview took place for exclusively academic purposes.
I got slow again in doing interviews and this recently makes me anxious. The target No#40 until April seems to be impossible at the moment:( But my dissertation writing plan did not change yet. I will declare my 2007 writing plan soon...
March 07, 2007
Interview #22: Oğuz Demiralp
On Monday I had conducted an interview with, Oğuz Demiralp, the head of General Secretariat for European Union Relations of Turkish Prime Ministry. So far, this was politically the highest profile interview. I am grateful to him for accepting me, talking sincerely and helping me for further contacts. Mr. Demiralp is also an award winner literary critic! Since his undergraduate years, he has been writing and contributing to the studies of Turkish literature. Therefore I had the courage to give him all issues of Milli İstirahat.
a brief literary bio here in Turkish.
Here is an older interview (from 2004) with Mr. Demiralp:
Interview news Turkey's EU ambassador: Membership will disprove "clash of civilisations"
Published: Tuesday 13 April 2004
Turkey is indispensable to the EU's foreign policy ambitions, says Turkey's EU ambassador Oguz Demiralp in an exclusive interview with EurActiv.
February 07, 2007
Interview #21: Sami Kohen
Another gentleman of Turkish Journalism. A senior foreign affairs columnist of the Turkish Press. He has been writing in Milliyet since the beginning of the newspaper! That is, he has been a columnist since 1955 in the same newspaper writes five days a week... The interview took place in his office at Milliyet.
February 01, 2007
Interview #20: Mehmet Barlas
A very well known columnist and journalist, Mr.Barlas talked to me last week. A brief bio of him in Turkish can be found here.
A view from Yorum Farkı
Apart from being a regular Sabah columnist, Mr. Barlas and Emre Kongar produces a daily news commentary in NTV news channel where two clashes quite harshly in their viewpoints...
