Cengiz Çandar

Cengiz Çandar

Cengiz Çandar (born 1948) is a Turkish journalist and a former war correspondent.

Early life

He finished the secondary school at Talas American College in Talas, Kayseri and the high school at Tarsus American College in Tarsus, Mersin. [http://www.iz.com.tr/cgi-bin/index.pl?mod=shop;op=author_id;id=cengizcandar Author biography at İz publications] tr icon] Çandar graduated from Ankara University in 1970 with a Bachelor's degree in political science and international relations.

Career

He began his career as journalist in 1976 in the newspaper "Vatan" after living some years in the Middle East and Europe due to his opposition to the regime in Turkey following the military intervention in 1971.cite journal
doi = 10.1525/jps.2000.30.1.02p01086
author = Çandar, Cengiz
journal = Journal of Palestine Studies
volume = 30
issue = 1
pages = 68–82
year = 2000
month = October
publisher = University of California Press
title = A Turk in the Palestinian Resistance
accessdate = 2008-07-01] An expert for the Middle East (Lebanon and Palestine) and the Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Çandar worked for the Turkish News Agency and for the leading Turkish newspapers "Cumhuriyet", "Hürriyet", "Referans" [ [http://www.referansgazetesi.com/sonhaber.aspx?YZR_KOD=151 Contributions at "Referans"] tr icon] and "Güneş" as a war correspondent. Currently, he is a columnist for the "Turkish Daily News" [ [http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/search.php?q=Cengiz%20%C7ANDAR&i=1 Articles by Cengiz ÇANDAR] , "Turkish Daily News".] and "Radikal". [cite news|url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/Default.aspx?aType=Detay&ArticleID=895877&Date=30.08.2008&CategoryID=77
accessdate=2008-08-30
title=Cengiz Çandar artık Radikal'de
work=Radikal
date=2008-08-30
language=Turkish]

Çandar served as special adviser to Turkish president Turgut Özal between 1991 and 1993. His interest was drawn to the events during the ethnic unrest in the Balkans between 1993 and 1995. From 1997, Çandar lectured for two years on "History and Politics in the Middle East" at Bilgi University in İstanbul. Between 1999 and 2000, he did research work on "Turkey of the 21st century" as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. [cite web|url=http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=109941&fuseaction=topics.documents&group_id=115869#2002
accessdate=2008-07-27
title=Documents and Papers: Commentaries
work=Southeast Europe Project
publisher=Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars] His description of the 1998 events in Turkey as a "post-modern coup" [cite news|url=http://arsiv.sabah.com.tr/1997/06/28/y12.html
work=Sabah
accessdate=2008-07-27
date=1997-06-27
title=Post-modern darbe
first=Cengiz
last=Çandar
language=Turkish] gained notice internationally, [cite news|url=http://washingtontimes.com/news/2005/jun/25/20050625-104911-8659r/
title=Reforms curb Turkey's armed forces
work=Washington Times
first=Seth
last=Rosen
date=2008-07-27
accessdate=2005-06-25] though Radikal columnist Türker Alkan had used the term two weeks earlier. [cite news|url=http://arsiv.sabah.com.tr/2007/02/28/siy106.html
title='Post-modern darbe' tanımının 10 yıllık sırrı
accessdate=2008-07-27
date=2007-02-27
work=Sabah
language=Turkish
first=Metehan
last=Demir]

In 2007, he condemned the authorities for depriving Aghtamar of its Armenian past by renaming it to "Akdamar". [cite news
url=http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=69531
accessdate=2008-07-01
title=The so-called ‘Akdamar museum’
date=2007-03-30
work=Turkish Daily News
first=Cengiz
last=Çandar] [Çandar, Cengiz. " [http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/6225448.asp?yazarid=215&gid=61 Ahtamar Kilisesi ya da sözde Akdamar Müzesi] ", "Hürriyet", March 29 2007 tr icon] [cite news
url=http://www.agos.com.tr/index.php?module=news&news_id=2882&cat_id=32
title=Beyazdamar kilisesi ve diğerleri
archivedate=2007-03-29
archiveurl=http://www.bianet.org/bianet/kategori/kultur/93969/beyazdamar-kilisesi-ve-digerleri
language=Turkish
date=2007-03-23
work=Agos
first=Cengiz
last=Çandar]

Bibliography

* Direnen Filistin (The Palestine that Resists) (1976)
* Dünden Yarına İran (Iran: From Yesterday to Tomorrow) (1981)
* Ortadoğu Çıkmazı (The Middle East Impassé) (1983)
* Tarihle Randevu (Rendezvous with History) (1983)
* Güneşin Yedi Rengi (The Seven Colours of the Sun) (1987)(English title translations not official)

References


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