Baha Güngör

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Bahaeddin Turhan "Baha" Güngör (born February 22, 1950 in Istanbul , Turkey ; † November 22, 2018 in Cologne ) was the head of the Turkish editorial team at Deutsche Welle and the author of a well-received book about the Germans' image of Turks.

Career

Baha Güngör came to Aachen from Turkey in 1961 , where his father had studied and worked as a dentist. In 1978 he acquired German citizenship . After school, he began studying business administration and worked as an interpreter and adult education center teacher (German for Turks).

Güngör's journalistic career began with a traineeship at the Kölnische Rundschau , making him the first Turkish newspaper trainee to be trained in Germany. This was followed by activities as a foreign journalist for Reuters and as a political editor for the Bonner General-Anzeiger . In 1984 he moved to Turkey to report for the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from here , from 1991 he was a correspondent for the dpa . Later he also worked from Greece . After becoming the Turkish correspondent for dpa in 1991, the father of the family moved to Istanbul for some time.

Güngör's book The German Fear of the Turks and Their Accession to the EU (2004) was one of numerous publications on the subject of Turkey's accession negotiations with the European Union . In 2005 he received the German-Turkish Friendship Prize . In autumn 2017 his book Ataturk's Angry Grandchildren was published. Turkey between democracy and demagogy .

In 2015 Baha Güngör retired. From 2017 until his death in 2018 he was chairman of the German-Turkish Society Bonn eV. He died of lung cancer at the age of 68. He was divorced and had a son (* 1982) and a daughter (* 1986).

Güngör left a manuscript with the title Hüzün ... that means longing. How we became Germans and remained Turks , on which he wrote until shortly before his death.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RUNDBRIEF 2018. Südosteuropa Gesellschaft, accessed on August 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Jens Jensen: Baha Güngör died. In: Deutsche Welle. November 22, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
  3. ^ German-Turkish journalist: Baha Güngör died in Cologne. In: Kölnische Rundschau . November 23, 2018, accessed November 24, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Uli Kreikebaum: "Hey, Germany, we have to talk. Urgent." In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . January 19, 2019, p. 26 .
  5. ↑ Cybele 2005. In: demo.dtf.com. June 24, 2017. Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
  6. ↑ JHW Dietz Verlag 2017, ISBN 3801205118
  7. ↑ Frank Nägele: Baha Güngör in an interview: "What was made of the Özil case is an indictment". In: ksta.de . July 9, 2018, accessed November 23, 2018 .
  8. ^ Obituary Bahaeddin Turhan Güngör. German-Turkish Society eV Bonn, accessed on August 5, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Baha Güngör died , boersenblatt.net, November 27, 2018, accessed on November 28, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Güngör, Baha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Güngör, Bahaeddin Turhan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and book author
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul , Turkey
DATE OF DEATH 22nd November 2018
Place of death Cologne