Sefer Turan
| Sefer Turan | |
|---|---|
| Chief Advisor to Prime Minister of Turkey | |
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Assumed office April 2011 | |
| TRT At Turkiyya Coordinator | |
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In office 30 June 2009 – April 2011 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1962 Kahramanmaras, Turkey |
Sefer Turan (born 1962 Afşin, Kahramanmaras, Turkey) is a Turkish journalist and author. Turan was educated in Egypt and he knows Arabic very well.
Career
Sefer Turan is one of the few Middle East experts in Turkey. He served as a head of foreign news department at the Channel 7 TV station. He prepared and presented "the East & West" program at the ULKE TV.
Turan monitored Afghanistan and Iraq wars. His most remarkable works are on Palestine case. He prepared programs on Second Intifada, Palestine-Israel and Lebanon-Israel conflicts.
Sefer Turan attends as a political commentator on international TV Programs such as Al Jazeera, BBC Arabic, Rusiya Al-Yaum. He is appointed to the post of coordinator at state channel TRT el Türkiye which started broadcasting in Arabic[1] He is currently serving as the chief advisor in Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office.[2]
Sefer Turan married and he has three children.
Bibliography
- Jerusalem: Heart of the history (2004)
- My travels (2006)
- Historian of sciences: Fuat Sezgin (2010)
External links
- Qantara: New Arabic Station Aims to Unite Turkish and Arab Worlds - Interview with Sefer Turan
- Turkey uses TV to seduce Arab world
- Abdulhamid Bilici: Selamün aleyküm min İstanbul!
- Ennahar: TV, Turkey's new weapon to win over the Arab world
References
| Preceded by - |
Chief advisor to Prime Minister of Turkey April 2011 - |
Succeeded by |
| Preceded by - |
Coordinator At TRT At Turkiyya June 2009-April 2011 |
Succeeded by |