Cengiz Çandar

Gazeteci, Yazar

Doğum
21 Eylül, 1948
Eğitim
Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences Department of Diplomatic and International Relations
Burç
Diğer İsimler
Osman Cengiz Rumeli

Journalist and writer (b. 21 September 1948, Ankara). His real name is Osman Cengiz. He attended primary school in Ankara. He graduated from Tarsus American College (1966) and Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Diplomatic and International Relations (1970). He worked as an assistant of International Relations at the Middle East Technical University for a short time (1979 and 81). He got into trouble for his political activities as the Chairman of the Faculty of Political Science Student Association after the 12 March military coup. He returned to Turkey in 1974 after having lived in Damascus (where he was involved with the Palestinian Resistance Movement for a short time) Beirut and afterwards in Geneva, Paris and Amsterdam.

He started as a journalist at the newspaper Vatan in 1976 became Chief of the Foreign News Department and foreign policy reporter. He was foreign policy reporter at the Turkish News Agency and in newspapers such as Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet, Güneş, Sabah, Yeni Şafak, Dünden Bugüne Tercüman. He was called the “Middle East Expert” and “War Correspondent” a short time after he had started in journalism. He worked in the Lebanon, Iran and other centers of the Middle East in the first half of the 80s. He traveled extensively. He returned to Middle Europe and the old Soviet Union countries in the second half of the 80s. He worked as the special advisor and was one of the closest people to President Turgut Özal between 1991 and 1993. Between 1993 and 1995, he turned his heart and mind to the Balkans, mainly Bosnia. For a time he was one of the founding members and organizers responsible for the unsuccessful “New Democracy Movement”, which was initiated by Cem Boyner. He gave lectures on Middle Eastern History and Middle Eastern Policy at İstanbul Bilgi University (1997- 99). He worked at important research centers in Washington in the United States in the years 1999 and 2000 as the first person from Turkey to be invited to work on “21st Century Turkey”. He is a member of the Fenerbahçe Sport Club and organizer of the International Balkan Conferences.

He became known for his inclination towards a new style of thinking after his criticism of Marxism in 1980. As an expert journalist on Middle Eastern issues, he attracted attention with his interviews and commentaries. Apart from the newspapers that he worked for, his articles were published in reviews such as Aydınlık (1967-70), Proleter ve Devrimci Aydınlık (1970-71), Güney (1977), Tempo (1988-89). He was chosen as the Journalist of the Year by the Writers Union of Turkey in 1982. In addition, he received the 1983 Bülent Dikmener News Award, the 1986-87 Abdi İpekçi Peace and Friendship Award and the 1995 Journalists and Writers Association Tolerance Award.

WORKS:

Direnen Filistin (Resistant Palestine, 1976), Dünden Yarına İran (Iran From Yesterday to Tomorrow, 1981), Ortadoğu Çıkmazı (Middle East Dead-End, 1984), Tarihle Randevu (Meeting with History, 1984), Ortadoğu Üzerine Aykırı Düşünceler (Extraordinary Thoughts on the Middle East, 1984), Güneşin Yedi Rengi (Seven Colors of the Sun, 1987), Benim Şehirlerim (My Cities, 2000), Çıktık Açık Alınla - 28 Şubat Post Modern Darbe Geçidinde / 1996-2000 (We Set Off Blameless - In the 28 February Post Modern Coup Parade 2000).

REFERENCE: Büyük Larousse (c. 5, s. 2569), İhsan Işık / Yazarlar Sözlüğü (1990, 1998) - Türkiye Yazarlar Ansiklopedisi (2001, 2004) – Encyclopedia of Turkish Authors (2005) - Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, gen. 2. bas. 2007) - Ünlü Fikir ve Kültür Adamları (Türkiye Ünlüleri Ansiklopedisi, C. 3, 2013) - Encyclopedia of Turkey’s Famous People (2013), Cengiz Çandar'ın yeni adresi (odatv.com.tr, 11.01.2017).

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