Ertuğrul Özkök

Ertuğrul Özkök (born August 4, 1947 in Izmir ) is a Turkish journalist and columnist . From 1990 to the end of 2009 he was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Hürriyet, which appears in several European countries .

Life

Özkök was born in İzmir in 1947. Both his mother and his father, who made a name for himself as a printer in İzmir, came from Kardzhali in Bulgaria and had emigrated to Turkey a few years before Özkök was born. The son graduated from the İzmir Lyceum Namık Kemal and studied in Paris.

Personal and political views

As a journalist, Özkök sees himself as a proponent of the modernization of Turkey, represents ideas of the process of globalization and advocates strengthening women's rights in the Islamic culture as well as Turkey's accession to the European Union . He maintains contacts with top European and Turkish politicians, journalists and business people.

In September 2010, Ozkok wrote in the Hurriyet  : "I am a person who believes in God, but I'm not religious." (Turkish: ". Ben Allah'a inanan bir insanım, ama dindar değilim") in the German newspaper Bild had The year before, he reported in an article he wrote "My way to Mecca" that he had made a pilgrimage to Mecca . On the occasion of the visit of the then Federal President Christian Wulff to Turkey in October 2010, he expressed the hope to the same newspaper that the tattoo and headscarf of the respective President's wife should not stand in the way of a better Turkish-German understanding.

Web links

• Selection of Özköks articles in Hürriyet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://hurarsiv.hurriyet.com.tr/goster/haber.aspx?id=13343184&yazarid=10&tarih=2009-12-30
2. ↑ http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/15753490.asp?yazarid=10
3. ↑ http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/2009/11/22/weg-nach-mekka-hadsch/pilgern-muslime-wallfahrt-teil-1.html
4. ↑ http://www.bild.de/BILD/politik/2010/10/19/journalist-ertugrul-oezkoek/das-erwarten-wir-tuerken-vom-deutschen-praesidents.html