Television program creator

Hakan
Çelik

Journalist, Columnist, Radio and Television Presenter

Biography

Who is Hakan Çelik?

He was educated in Communications at Istanbul University. He completed Master’s degree programs on “Science fiction cinema” in the Faculty of Communications and on “Political structure of the European Union” in the Faculty of Political Science at his alma mater. He had an apprentieship at the BBC, Glasgow – 1990. Çelik was granted scholarship from the British Foreign Office.

Hakan Çelik

He entered media; Günaydın-1988, became one of the first private radio broadcasters in Turkey, Later, he joined Hür FM, a Hürriyet Radio, and produced shows for Show Radio. He produced and presented the TV show “Weekend” Haberturk TV, weekend moderator of the morning shows Kanal 24. He was the commentator TRT Radio 1 program “Gündem”, and representative of CNN Türk, Kanal D in and also Posta Ankara. He is a co performer at Parametre, and is producing CNN Türk Hafta Sonu Keyfi.

Güven İslamoğlu

Güven
İslamoğlu

TV Producer, Director

Biography

He produces documentary films and TV programs and explains to people that a life at peace with nature is possible. He raises our awareness of our natural and cultural heritage.

Güven İslamoğlu demonstrates to his audience issues of environmental importance to Turkey and the world with his TV programs that he produces and presents. His aim is to promote a life at peace with nature. “We cannot protect something that we don’t know exists,” says İslamoğlu, who has travelled every inch of Turkey and emphasises what an incredible country we live in, with our archaeological, historical and cultural heritage.

With his vast experience at TRT and various newspapers, he was able to play an active role in the establishment of CNN TÜRK. He produced documentary films such as “Ecevit, Kıbrıs, Yaralı Balina and Ağrı’ya By-Pass.” He placed the CNN TÜRK flag at the top of Mount Ağrı. He broadcast live from 4,200 meters for the first time in Turkey. He played an active role in many events that left their mark on Turkey’s national consciousness. Currently, he works as the senior reporter at the News Centre of CNN TÜRK. He has won many awards for his program “Her Yerde Bir Haber Var.” İslamoğlu currently produces and presents another program “Yeşil Doğa.”

İslamoğlu has had a highly successful journalism career reporting from a number of regions around the world that are fast-paced, journalistically speaking, to say the least. He is currently involved in reporting on the environment and working on news programs. İslamoğlu has won an array of awards, including the Progressive Journalists’ Association “Best Documentary Award,” the Istanbul Environment Council Federation’s “Environment Award,” ÇEVKO’s “Respect to the Environment Award,” EUROSOLAR’s “Sun Award,” regarded as the environmental equivalent of the Nobel Prize of Europe, the Berlin Media Ethics Council’s “TV Documentary Ethics Award.”

In his private life he also seeks to live in harmony with nature. İslamoğlu dabbles in carpentry and is a keen hiker, cyclist and catamaran enthusiast.

Who is Güven İslamoğlu?

Güven İslamoğlu graduated from the Press Department of the Anatolian University’s Communication Sciences Faculty. He worked as a director on the programs “Gün Başlıyor” and “Akşama Doğru” at TRT Ankara Television between 1989 and 1991. He played a part in the establishment of HBB in 1992. He served as a producer and director in the Special News Department. He took charge of the programs “Anten” and “Yüksek Tansiyon.” He worked as a director in Hürriyet Production between 1993 and 1994. He directed the programs “Arena” and “Prizma.” In 1995, he decided to work in front of the camera rather than from behind the scenes and began working for Show TV News Centre, where he reported on news items of special interest. In 1997, he was transferred to Star News Centre. He served as an executive producer in addition to working on news items of special interest. In 1999, he began working for CNN TÜRK and played a part in its establishment.

Speech Topics

What sort of a country do we live in?

• Ecology

• Renewable and alternative energy

• New trends in communication: electronic-digital-social media

• Corporate communication

• The Secret of Discovery

• Battles for Water

• Ecological and Sociological Effects of Global Warming

• Environment is The New Trend

• Ways to Achieve Sustainability

Gani Müjde

Gani
Müjde

Writer, Script Writer, Director, Cartoonist

Biography

“One of our teachers told us to look at people in the streets, write stories about them and develop characters for them in our mind. I make many observations. The characters I cast are real Turkish people.”

A coffee/laughter break with Gani Müjde

Gani Müjde is a talented name whose works have filled our lives with joy. He has successfully managed to pull off many “firsts” in a landscape where “new” is not easily accepted. The master humourist’s films, which he produces and directs, and his TV series and programs, for which he writes the scripts, are embedded in our memories.

Gani Müjde invites his audience for a coffee break where he tells amusing anecdotes from his life and comments on interesting newspaper headlines, as well as celebrity blunders. The positive way he looks at life transports you away from your daily routine and makes for a truly special experience.

Take a break and smile at life with Gani Müjde!

Who is Gani Müjde?

Gani Müjde was born in 1959 in Istanbul. He graduated from Mimar Sinan University’s Cinema and Television Academy. Müjde worked for Gırgır and Fırt magazines for eight years. He also worked as an editor at the magazine Laklak. He then went on to establish Limon magazine and began writing a column called “Peynir Gemisi.”

He now heads a writer’s group called Tükenmezkalem and owns a production company called Peynir Gemisi.

Speech Topics

• Conversations with humorous anecdotes

Ferhat Boratav

Ferhat
Boratav

Journalist, Historian

Biography

“Technology turned our approach to communications upside down, as it did our fantasy world. We are in an era where media is unable to control the information flow or the idea creation process on its own.”

Ferhat Boratav is the editor-in-chief for CNNTurk. CNN is the TV channel that transformed our understanding of TV programming and reporting. When you are in charge of such a communication tool, you get a grip on the entire world. On top of being the person to most closely follow-up the day, Boratav is an historian. Drawing the attention with his analyses that combine history with the present time, Boratav is a sought-after speaker in communications and “We the Turks” topics. Leading to major transformations in every department of life, technology bears its most evident effect on the communications sector. Stating that Turkey did not experience as strong a transformation as the rest of the world, but that developments will soon transform Turkey as well. Boratav says that mental change should occur first, in order for a true revolution in communication to take place.

Organ donation is a new topic on our agendas about which we are not very comfortable, either. It is a new headline we may or may not welcome depending on our education level. Possessing serious experience in this topic within the scope of his professional activities, Boratav formulated organ donation as social responsibility campaigns in different occasions, and undersigned successful projects. Boratav shares his experiences in organ donation as an individual topic of speech.

Who is Ferhat Boratav?

Ferhat Boratav got his degree in history from Boğaziçi University. He received his master’s degree on “Turkish Immigrant Workers” from Grenoble University in France. His media career began at Nokta newsmagazine. He worked as a producer, presenter and radio journalist at the BBC World Service’s Turkish Section. Upon his return to Turkey, he briefly worked for a television production company. He then went back to the newsroom, and served as the managing editor of ATV News and then as the editor-in-chief at CNN Turk, where he currently holds the position of editorial consultant. He considers his years in the university drama club and his work as a cook in France as important chains of his subsequent career.

Speech Topics

History
How will be comment journal
Futurism of Mediatic;Future of Media Citizen
Responsibility /Social Sensivity
Organ donation
Life of Old Growing People; Our New Social Case
Woman Issue;Social Gender Equility

Coşkun Aral

Coşkun
Aral

Journalist, International War Photographer, Documentary Producer