Journalism and Politics in Turkey

"Journalism and Politics in Turkey" with CNN Türk journalist Cüneyt Özdemir
Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library Rm 153
6:00 pm

Describing his twenty-year experience as a journalist in Turkey, Özdemir will explain the many challenges of reporting objective news under an increasingly autocratic government intent on silencing political opposition.

Cüneyt Özdemir is a Turkish broadcast journalist with 28 years of international journalism experience, the author of 13 research books, a television producer, and anchorman. Özdemir hosts Turkey's leading local and foreign affairs program 5N1K.

Sponsored as part of the Journalism and New Media Initiative of the Franklin Humanities Institute by Duke Public Affairs and Government Relations, the Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and the Center for French and Francophone Studies