Cüneyt Özdemir
| Cüneyt Özdemir | |
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| Born |
February 8, 1970 Ankara, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Education | Ankara University, Faculty of Communication |
| Occupation | Journalist, TV presenter, author, producer |
| Spouse(s) | Zeynep İnanoğlu |
Cüneyt Özdemir (born February 8, 1970) is a Turkish journalist, television host and producer. Özdemir is the anchorman of the leading local and foreign affairs program 5N1K, broadcast on CNN Türk Television for 16 years now.
Cüneyt Özdemir was born and raised in Ankara, Turkey. He was born into a Muslim-Turkish Family in Ankara. He is fluent in Turkish and English.
After completing his elementary and high school education in Ankara, he attended Ankara University, Faculty of Communication - the leading institution of communication education and studies in Turkey. There he studied at the Department of Radio, Television and Film. During his time there, he worked for prominent news outlets. Özdemir graduated from Ankara University with a B.A degree in journalism. In 1993 he went to London, United Kingdom with a scholarship from the British Council. There he studied multimedia journalism.
Özdemir started his journalism career at 32. Gün International Affairs Program. He worked there as the executive director of the program. 32. Gün was produced and presented by prominent Turkish journalist Mehmet Ali Birand. In 1996, Özdemir became an international war correspondent where he has reported on major political crisis sites at many of the world's hotspots including the Lebanese-Israeli border, Iraq and Afghanistan. He covered numerous special stories from war zones. Özdemir was given his first major assignment covering the Gulf War. Through this position, he was able to make prominent coverages for the program. Özdemir, at his young age, gained recognition and reputation for being brave at such wars and for reporting from conflict areas.
In 1999, he helped found CNN Türk. In 2000, he founded Turkey's pioneer international news program 5N1K which takes its name from the six fundamental questions of journalism which are What (Ne), When (Ne Zaman), Where (Nerede), Why (Neden), How (Nasil) and Who (Kim). He has been producing and presenting the program 5N1K which is broadcast on CNN Türk Television for 16 years now. The program has won Turkey’s all prestigious journalism awards, at least several times. Between years 2012 and 2013 he presented the program from The London Studios. Throughout the years, the program focused on international wars, political affairs, world cups, Olympics, fashion weeks, groundbreaking news from all over the world as well as Turkish Diplomacy and local affairs. The program has managed to combine hard news and soft news with a colorful and vivid perspective. Over the years, Özdemir has reported on major crises from many of world's hotspots including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Palestinian territories and Israel. He has secured exclusive interviews at such countries. He has had many memorable moments in his television career. He went to Athens in 2004 to cover the World Olympics. In 2006, he visited the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba and produced an investigative news story there. In 2007, he followed the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in . That year, his program 5N1K was aired on CNN Türk for the 300th time. In 2008, he went to Latin America and followed the leftist movement there. He also worked on an investigative story at Harvard University where he covered new cell practices. In 2011, he went to Libya to follow the political chaos at the heart of the country. There, Özdemir has conducted a groundbreaking interview with Libya's deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Seyful Islam Muammar Gaddafi. His other prominent works include interviews with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Christian Amanpour, Noam Chomsky, Felice Casson Gladio, Orhan Pamuk, Zaha Hadid, Liz Hurley and Hugh Jackman. Özdemir continues to cover important news stories from all over the world.
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