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PANEL SESSIONS
REBUILDING COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE
PANEL SESSION ON
MEDIA AND CIVIL SOCIETY
This panel session was quite fruitful thanks to the
speeches delivered by Hercules Millas, Nur Batur
and Katia Antoniadi about journalism, Turkish image
in Greek papers, Greek image in Turkish papers,
their contribution to the formation of stereotypes,
media’s role in Turkish-Greek dialogue and coverage
of NGO activities in media. After the presentation
of speakers, there was a participatory and fruitful
question session.
NUR BATUR
Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’Europe
MARCH 21, 2003
I am the chief correspondent of the “Hürriyet” newspaper and the “CNN Türk”
Television in Athens for the last seven years. I lived through the most important
events in the past seven years between the Turkish and the Greek governments.
I have covered the famous Kardak-Imia crisis in 1996, then the big crisis of
Öcalan in 1999. Following the earthquakes, we have been living a dialogue
between Turkey and Greece, which really helped us to talk about it and to look
at the future in a more positive and optimistic view.
This panel is more meaningful today as we are facing one of the major crises
in the last 50 years. We are facing a war just in one of our neighbours, in Iraq;
the United Nations has been facing a danger of collapse, the NATO has cracked,
the European Union has cracked; American and British troops have started
marching in Iraq. I think this crisis has showed us the danger of militarisation
and we realised the value of peace, right now.
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