Gazeteci Mithat Bereket, Amerikan sivil toplum örgütüAmerican Abroad Media'nin bu yılki başarı ödülüne layık görüldü. Ödülün,bugünlerde Parkinson ile mücadele eden Bereket'e geçmişte yürüttüğü çalışmalarnedeniyle sunulduğu açıklandı. Washington'da gerçekleşen ve yaklaşık 300kişinin katıldığı törende daha sonra Bereket'e ithafen orkestra tarafındanMemleketim şarkısı çalındı.
#Mithat BereketISTANBUL-If political propaganda indeed helps reshape elections, Istanbul is staging the biggest battle these days, with hundreds of posters, flags and other material covering each square meter of the city landscape. Yet, among all this paper, one stands out looking strangely familiar, and that is the face of the president of the United States, Barack Obama
If the contemporary meaning of the term "public diplomacy" is meant to be a "truthful propaganda" which may include "all activities designed to appeal to public, to enhance the home country’s attractiveness or appeal, by using media in order to enhance private-private partnerships" then, the appearance of Mrs. Hilary Clinton at the "all woman" chat show of NTV channel was certainly a textbook case for a successful operation.
Some years ago, I found myself at a small Washington gathering of veteran American reporters and one Algerian, a guest on a Fulbright Scholarship or something. The conversation took a patronizing turn, one of those cultural faux pas situations for which my countrymen are famous and often so blissfully clueless.
WASHINGTON - Thierry de la Villehuchet, the chief executive of Access International, is found dead in his New York office, in what a friend says was a suicide. Access International is among the funds that heavily invested in the fraudulent scheme of Bernard Madoff, who is currently under house arrest.
Soner Çağaptay is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is also a prolific author, whose commentaries about Turkey appear quite frequently in prestigious newspapers and magazines. When you read them, you can’t help but sense what appears to be his strong political orientation against the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, which has governed Turkey since 2002. The takeaway message, it seems, is that the AKP is perilously Islamist and is taking the country away from its secular principles. The second message is that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his authoritarian "single party" regime is the best thing that ever happened to the Turks.
Serb rioters enraged by Kosovo's secession stormed the U.S. embassy in Belgrade and set it on fire, leaving one person dead and drawing swift condemnation from Washington and the U.N. Security Council. A group also threw stones on building of Turkish Embassy in Belgrade.
The two photos were published practically side by side on the first day of Bayram. One of the photos was of a Turk. His name is Dursun Uyar. The other photo was of an American. His name is Jeffrey Skilling. The American is the former CEO of the by now infamous American company Enron. Skilling has been tried and implicated on charges of altering his company's financial figures to his own benefit. He will be in prison for 25 years now.