Emre Kızılkaya is a Turkish

Turkey

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 journalist based in Istanbul

Istanbul

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Currently, Kızılkaya works for Hürriyet

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 as the Chief Editor of the Foreign News Service and a columnist of Hürriyet's website. Numerous foreign politicians that he interviewed for Hürriyet include United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon

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, Israel President Moshe Katsav

Moshe Katsav

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, Finnish President Tarja Halonen

Tarja Halonen

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, Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip

Andrus Ansip

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, Serbian President Boris Tadic

Boris Tadic

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, Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin

Vladimir Voronin

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, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev

Nursultan Nazarbayev

Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev has served as the President of Kazakhstan since the nation received its independence in 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union...

, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu

Ahmet Davutoglu

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, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy

Pascal Lamy

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 and Olli Rehn

Olli Rehn

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, the European Commissioner for Enlargement

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 then. He also covered President Barack Obama

Barack Obama

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's official visit to Istanbul. Besides politicians, he conducted interviews with writers like Joseph O'Neill

Joseph O'Neill

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 and scholars like Guenther Lewy.

Since 2003, Kızılkaya has also been working for various magazines, including the Robb Report

Robb Report

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 and Hürriyet Tarih, a weekly Turkish magazine on popular history. He is the Turkish translator of Angels and Jesus' Son

Jesus' Son

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, two books by Denis Johnson

Denis Johnson

Denis Hale Johnson is an American author who is known for his short-story collection Jesus' Son and his novel Tree of Smoke , which won the National Book Award. He also writes plays, poetry and non-fiction.- Biography :...

. His blog, The Istanbulian, is the first English-language blog of a Turkish journalist who works for a major newspaper.

Kızılkaya has a B.A degree in Political Science and International Relations from Istanbul University

Istanbul University

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 and an M.A degree in Journalism from Marmara University

Marmara University

Marmara University is a public university in Turkey. Situated in Istanbul, Marmara University has succeeded in becoming the second largest university in the whole country...

. His dissertation was about "Ideology and the New Media".

In 2008, Kızılkaya won the Essay and Photo Contest, organized by the Regional Cooperation Council.

External links

• Emre Kızılkaya's Blog, The Istanbulian
• The Collection of Emre Kızılkaya's Column Articles, Dış Açı