The mega shock of this 12 months within the media was undoubtedly İsmail Küçükkaya’s departure from Fox TV and his switch to Halk TV.
Truthfully, that shocked me as properly.
Ismail Kucukkaya, none. Undoubtedly, the largest star of the tv world right this moment.
I can say that there isn’t any one who doesn’t know him the second he goes out on the road.
Final 12 months, after we went to Ahmet Güneştekin’s exhibition, I noticed what his repute was whereas strolling across the streets of Diyarbakır.
Each two steps, folks had been stopping us to take a photograph with him.
I additionally noticed this media stardom in Uğur Dündar in Marmaris once I was going to Okluk Bay to interview the late Turgut Özal within the Nineties.
Ismail has an actual expertise scout behind him.
İsmail is one in all our associates who moved from print media to tv.
Beforehand, he adopted a profession ranging from being a reporter to Hürriyet, Haber Türk and Akşam newspaper and going to the editor-in-chief.
I watched him with nice admiration when he was the editor-in-chief of Akşam.
However it was the Fox TV morning information that made him well-known.
It was Fox TV Editor-in-Chief Doğan Şentürk who found him there, introduced him to tv, which he had no expertise with, and put him on the head of the morning information.
Doğan is a real expertise scout.
He was the one who opened the doorways of fame to Fatih Portakal.
Now he made Selçuk Tepeli well-known.
Doğan opened the way in which, however what was the key of staying there?
As a former editor-in-chief, let me say this.
To say that “Dogan created these folks” would imply not giving our different associates their due.
As a result of managers pave the way in which for many individuals. However it isn’t attainable for all of them to return from that street that has opened, to deserve and keep there.
However the proficient ones can keep there, reaching sustainable success.
Each İsmail Küçükkaya and Fatih Portakal are such proficient journalists.
What did Doğan say to me 48 hours earlier than İsmail’s departure?
Anyway, the introduction is lengthy, nevertheless it makes me proud as a colleague to inform in regards to the achievements of those benevolent folks.
İsmail’s departure from Fox TV was a shock to everybody, however I suppose it was a shock to Doğan Şentürk.
As a result of 48 hours earlier than his departure, we had been with Doğan in Assos for Sadettin Saran’s birthday.
There he informed me at size in regards to the improvements that Fox TV would make in its morning and night information packages.
That is why I’ve at all times questioned about this since then.
How is the connection of those two associates right this moment?
Has there been any bitterness?
I received the reply to this query final night time.
A fantastic ceremony bringing the 2 collectively for the primary time
Final night time on the Hilton Lodge, the award ceremony of the Aydın Doğan Basis given to an individual of tradition yearly was held.
Many well-known folks attended the ceremony.
However after all, all of us instantly caught sight of Doğan Şentürk and İsmail Küçükkaya.
It was the primary time for the reason that day they broke up that they had been collectively in a spot.
Doğan Şentürk was with me on the desk.
“Is there any bitterness?” I requested him.
“There isn’t a such factor on my aspect,” he mentioned.
After some time, İsmail Küçükkaya got here to us.
They hugged and greeted him warmly.
I mentioned, “I’ve a journalism vein, can I’ve a photograph taken between the 2 of you.
And that is how this picture took place.
It was my privilege to publish the primary picture of the assembly of the 2 associates within the Turkish media.
Edip Cansever was proper to put in writing these love letters.
The Aydın Doğan award went to a well-deserved artist this 12 months, because it does yearly.
The award was given to ceramic artist Alev Ebuziyya.
First time seeing him up shut.
For some motive, the splendidly stunning lady I noticed within the images appeared to me as a distant and troublesome individual to strategy.
The second he began giving his award speech, I noticed how improper that impression was.
Lastly, there was a heat, honest and humble individual earlier than us.
I feel his speech was stuffed with ideas that inform rather a lot not solely to artists, however to everybody.
Whereas watching him, I remembered the love letters that the poet Edip Cansever wrote to him, which was revealed by İşbank Publications two years in the past.
As a person, I learn it with nice curiosity.
Whereas listening to Alev Ebüzziya final night time, I understood Edip Cansever significantly better.
She is a lady to fall in love with…
The primary sentence that got here to my thoughts once I noticed Nazlı Ilıcak
One other shock visitor of the night time was Nazlı Ilıcak…
It was the primary time I noticed him at such an invite after he was launched from jail.
We had been listening to that he was confined to his home and that his morale was very worn out.
The primary feeling I had once I noticed him there was:
“I want Iran had a Nazlı Ilıcak right this moment…”
As a result of I keep in mind the headscarved MP Merve Kavakçı getting into the parliament within the Nineties on her arm.
It was an important braveness for that day, and in my view, what Nazmi did that day had an important share in serving to headscarved ladies get their rights.
If you went to jail, I believed you’d get help from headscarved ladies.
That is why I anticipated robust help from Merve Kavakçı and different headscarved ladies when she went to jail.
Sadly, that help got here very, little or no.
Sadly, only a few of the ladies who struggled to enter the parliament with their headscarves in Ogun had that sense of solidarity with the ladies who wished to uncover their heads in Iran.
I noticed that their battle was just for their very own freedom.
However I’m certain of this.
If Mrs. Nazli had been an Iranian lady, she would have carried out the identical for Merve Kavakçı for ladies who gave their lives to uncover their heads.
The entire world wants ladies like this.
A step-by-step Mustafa Koç award
I used to be invited to a different award ceremony this week.
On Tuesday night, the Mustafa Koç Sports activities Award was given to the “Adım Adim Affiliation” this 12 months.
Since my daughter can be a member, I observe the work of this affiliation very carefully.
It’s actually an affiliation that was based fully with civil initiative, continues and grows with civil solidarity.
They run to assist folks in want.
They’ve created a really attention-grabbing fundraising system.
It’s a clear system that may be managed by anybody at any time.
On this method, they contact 1 million folks.
60-70 thousand of the 100 thousand individuals who will run within the Bosphorus Marathon this week are people who find themselves associated to this affiliation.
The Mustafa Koç award went to a company that really helps sports activities this 12 months as properly.
I left there very pleased.