Exiled in Thessaloniki, Chronicle of Modern Turkey / 

The book by Ragip Duran is presented in Athens

The cultural review ENEKEN and the publications of the same title present Ragip Duran's book , «Exiled to Thessaloniki, Chronicle of Modern Turkey», in Athens on Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 19:00, at ESIEA (Akadimias 20,, Athens – 3rd floor).

The book will be discussed by MEP Stelios Kouloglou, Professor of Political Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Cengiz Aktar, the author himself and his publisher, George Yannopoulos.

The presentation of the book will be followed by the screening of Stelios Kouloglou's documentary film entitled "My friend Ragip", which records the grim reality faced by fellow journalists in Turkey.

A few words about the author and the book:

Mehmet Rag ı p Duran was born in 1954 in Istanbul. He studied law in Aix-en-Provence after graduating from Galataserai High School in Istanbul. He studied journalism schools CFPJ-Paris and Nieman/ Harvard-Boston.

Journalist since 1978, he worked in various major newspapers in Turkey (Aydı nlık,

 Hürriyet, Cumhuriyet, Nokta, Özgür Gündem, , BİA). He was a correspondent for the French news agency AFP and La Libération newspaper in Turkey. He also worked in London for the BBC.

He is the author of four books since 1980: With Afghan Fighters, Media with Epaulette, This İs International Police Radio, Mediamorphoses. He taught journalism at  Galatasaray University and Marmara University in Istanbul and simultaneous interpreting at Bilkent University in Ankara.

For his work, books and journalistic activity he was honored with numerous awards both in Turkey and abroad.

Since 2016 he lives in Thessaloniki. He writes articles on Turkish issues for the online publication TVXS.GR while he is a producer of the program "HistoryGeographyMedia"  for  Özgürüz Radio in Berlin. His website concerns the critical analysis of contemporary media: www.apoletlimedya.blogspot.com

Duran's book, introduced by Stelios Kouloglou, is a valuable guide to understanding contemporary Turkey through the eyes of an experienced and perceptive observer who serves the profession of journalism with passion and dedication.

It should be noted that most of the articles in the book were published in the online edition TVXS.GR. The author wrote the texts in French which were translated into Greek by journalists Nikos Legakis and Nikos Michos. The publisher edited all the translations. Part of the texts was published in ENEKEN, a Review of Culture published in Thessaloniki. The texts published on the website Arti Gerçek (Cologne) and Express 1+1 (Istanbul) into Turkish were translated by Duran and Giannopoulos who also edited the material of the book.