Burak bekdil biography

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Burak Bekdil (1966 – 21 October 2023) was a Turkish columnist who wrote for the daily Hürriyet for 29 years.
Burak Bekdil was a Turkish columnist who wrote for the daily Hürriyet for 29 years.

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Burak Bekdil

Burak Bekdil (1966, Ankara – 21 Ekim 2023, İstanbul), Türk gazeteci ve köşe yazarı.

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Bekdil, 1966'da Ankara'da doğdu. 1987'de başladığı gazetecilik kariyerini 2023 yılındaki ölümüne kadar sürdürdü. En çok; 29 yıl boyunca köşe yazarlığı yaptığı Hürriyet gazetesindeki kariyeriyle tanındı.^[1] Ölümüne kadar Orta Doğu Forumu'nda üye olarak yer almış aynı zamanda 1997'den itibaren ABD'de haftalık yayınlanan Defence News dergisinde Türkiye haberlerini hazırlıyordu. Kaleme aldığı yazıları Dünya genelinde seçkin; The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, BBC, The Guardian, Reuters, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, Toronto Star, Financial Times, Le Figaro, ABC, El Pais, Stern ve El-Arabia vb. yayın kuruluşlarında yer almıştır.

Sanat tarihçisi ve J. Paul Getty Vakfı Başkanı James Cuno onu tarif ederken; "Başbakan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan'ı sık sık eleştiren biri" olarak tanımlamıştır.^[2] Bekdil, 2002'de "yargıya haka

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Longtime Defense News Turkey correspondent Burak Bekdil dies at 57

Longtime Defense News contributor journalist Burak Ege Bekdil died in an Ankara hospital following surgery complications after a prior motorbike accident, according to family and colleagues in Turkey.

Bekdil had a decades-long career in journalism, writing for Turkish outlets on politics and international relations, as well as English-language defense publications such as Defense News, where his bylines go back to 1997.

According to an Oct. 22 obituary in Hürriyet Daily News, where he worked as a reporter and columnist starting in the 1990s, he also served as Ankara bureau chief for the now-defunct CNBC-e television channel in the early 2000s.

Bekdil was featured in a 2002 article from Deutschlandfunk, a German news radio station, which reported that his beliefs about free speech had landed him in hot water with the authorities at the time.

His reporting for Defense News married a deep knowledge of regional geopolitics with a knack for well-sourced news, composed in the artful tone of a writer accustomed to th

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‘Turkey’s Dangerous Ottoman Nostalgia,’ with Burak Bekdil

Date and time: Friday, July 10, 2020, 1 pm Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)

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The Ottoman Empire ended in 1923, but for neo-Ottomans like Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the regime has merely been in a long slumber. From meddling in the Balkans to anti-Zionism to active roles in the Syrian and Libyan civil wars to drilling in Cypriot waters, Erdoğan shows how he longs for 1820 rather than 2020. Burak Bekdil outlines Erdoğan’s neo-Ottoman motivations, the threats it poses, and how to counter it.

Bekdil is an Ankara-based fellow at the Middle East Forum and Gatestone Institute. He spent 29 years with Hürriyet Daily News. His work and commentary have appeared in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal and The Economist. In 2001, he received a 20-month suspended sentence for satirizing corruption in Turkey’s judiciary.

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