Journalist Kadri Gürsel will be among the panelists discussing democracy and media responsibility on 9 October during the Strasbourg World Forum for Democracy.
The Turkish media expert joins an international line-up which includes Jillian York (USA), Moez Masoud (Egypt), Eynullah Fatullayev (Azerbaijan), Ksenia Sobchak and Alexei Venediktov (Russia) and Yemen’s 2011 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Tawakkol Karman, for a wide-ranging 90 minute debate.
Event: Follow the Council of Europe’s World Forum for Democracy (5-11 October) on the web, Facebook and Twitter #CoE_WFD
Kadri Gürsel (photo) was born in Istanbul, in 1961 and has been a journalist since 1986. He has worked for several daily newspapers, including Cumhuriyet and weekly news magazines before joining AFP.
Gürsel is the Chairman of the Turkish National Committee of the International Press Institute (IPI) and for the past five years, has been a regular columnist for the Turkish daily newspaper Milliyet.
His main interests are foreign policy, international affairs and the Kurdish question, as well as Turkey’s evolving political Islam and its national and regional impacts.
Between 1993-97, Gürsel was the Agence France-Presse’s İstanbul based correspondent. In 1995, he was kidnapped in the Turkish south-east by the Kurdish PKK and wrote about the experience in his book entitled “Dağdakiler” (Those of the Mountains) published in 1996. The book contains his observations and analysis of the PKK’s armed struggle and the organisation’s mindset.
Event: Follow the Council of Europe’s World Forum for Democracy (5-11 October) on the web, Facebook and Twitter #CoE_WFD
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