Name Emre Kizilkaya | Role Journalist | |
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Emre Kızılkaya (6 July 1982, Istanbul) is a Turkish journalist based in Istanbul, currently working as the digital news coordinator of the leading Turkish daily Hürriyet and as the Vice President of the National Committee at the Vienna-based International Press Institute.
He has been the managing editor of the Hürriyet Daily News, the English-language edition of Hürriyet in 2014 and 2015.
He is a regular contributor for Al-Monitor and The Huffington Post. His personal blog, The Istanbulian, is the first English-language blog of a Turkish journalist who works for a major newspaper.
Kızılkaya has been extensively interviewed and quoted by the international media, including The New York Times , CNN, BBC, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, Corriere della Sera, Le Figaro, Le Nouvel Observateur, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Asahi Shimbun, South China Morning Post, Asia Times, The Scotsman, Russia Today, The Intercept, Yedioth Ahronoth and Al Jazeera.
Numerous dignitaries that Kızılkaya interviewed for Hürriyet include international leaders like United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen; presidents like Moshe Katsav and Moncef Marzouki; Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi; prime ministers like Gerhard Schröder and Jyrki Katainen; foreign ministers like Ahmet Davutoğlu and Walid Muallem; European figures like Olli Rehn and Christian Engström; scholars like Daron Acemoğlu and Guenter Lewy; authors like John Ralston Saul and Joseph O'Neill.
Since 2003, Kızılkaya has also been contributing to various magazines, including Hürriyet Tarih, a weekly Turkish magazine on popular history in which more than eighty of his articles were published until 2006. He is the Turkish translator of Angels and Jesus' Son, two books by Denis Johnson.
Kızılkaya has a B.A degree in Political Science and International Relations from Istanbul University and an M.A degree in Journalism from Marmara University. His dissertation was about ideology, discourse and narrative in New Media.