Sefer Turan
Sefer Turan | |
|---|---|
| Chief Advisor to Prime Minister of Turkey | |
| Assumed office April 2011 | |
| TRT At Turkiyya Coordinator | |
| 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[edit]
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] He has written several articles supporting the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, listed by the United Nations Security Council as an al-Qaeda-affiliated group.[3]
Sefer Turan married and he has three children.
Bibliography[edit]
- Jerusalem: Heart of the history (2004)
- My travels (2006)
- Historian of sciences: Fuat Sezgin (2010)
External links[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ "Fance24: Television becomes Turkey's new weapon". Archived from the original on April 12, 2010.
- ^ "Başbakan'ın yeni danışmanları medyadan".
- ^ "Turkish President Erdoğan's chief advisor endorsed al-Qaeda-affiliated Egyptian Islamic Jihad". May 12, 2020.
