Ertuğrul Özkök

Ertuğrul Özkök (* August 4, 1947 in Izmir) is a Turkish journalist and columnist. He was from 1990 to end of 2009, chief editor of the newspaper in several European countries Hürriyet.

Life

Ozkok was born in 1947 in İzmir. His mother and his father, who as a printer in İzmir made ​​a name came from Kardzhali in Bulgaria and had a few years ago Özköks birth emigrated to Turkey. The son graduated from high school at the Lyceum Namik Kemal Izmir and studied in Paris.

Personal and political views

Ozkok sees itself as a journalist and as advocates of modernization of Turkey, represents ideas of the process of globalization and advocates a strengthening of women's rights in the Islamic world as well as Turkey's accession to the European Union. He maintains contacts with European and Turkish political leaders, journalists and businessmen.

In September 2010 Ozkok wrote in the Hurriyet: " I am a person who believes in God, but I 'm not religious. " (Turkish: ". Allah'a inanan Ben bir insanım, ama dindar değilim " ) in the German newspaper Bild had he previously written by him in a article " My road to Mecca " reported in the year that he had made ​​a pilgrimage to Mecca. On the occasion of the visit of the then Federal President Christian Wulff in Turkey in October 2010, he was compared to the same newspaper, expressed the hope that tattoo as headscarf of the respective president's wife a better Turkish-German understanding should not stand in the way.