Thursday, February 7, 2013

GwenythTodd, Nuri Çolakoğlu


Press TV's documentary program "Untold Truths" is a revealing documentary film about the life and experiences of former White House Middle East policy adviser, Gwenyth Todd, who has escaped to Australia to keep safe from FBI prosecution.


In the short documentary above, Gwenyth Todd mentions a Turkish billionaire friend who helped pay for her legal costs against our screwed up government. This man was killed two days later in Istanbul. I thought this was a very interesting part of this interview and the one done on Project Camelot with her and wanted to know a little more about him. I believe the below picture and article are referencing the same person as the documentary,  a very interesting man.


Nuri Çolakoğlu

President, Dogan Media International

Nuri M. Colakoglu, born in Izmir in 1943, graduated from Robert College and took his BA in Diplomacy and International Relations from school of Political Sciences, Ankara. He has worked as a journalist & broadcaster and media executive since 1969. He has held positions in Turkey and abroad, including TRT Foreign News Department, German News Agency DPA, Sweden STV, German WDR Radio, Aydinlik Newspaper, BBC Turkish Section, Milliyet Newspaper London Bureau Chief and then News Editor and TRT General Manager Chief Advisor.

Since 1991 he has been involved in launching or restructuring a number of private TV channels - Show TV, Cine 5, Olay TV, NTV, CNBC-e, CNN Turk, Fenerbahce TV, Kanal D Romania, TEB KOBI TV, Grand Bazaar TV/Kapalıçarşı TV. Right now he is in the process of launching his 10th channel – HTV: Health Channel.

He returned to Dogan Media Group in 2002 as CEO & President of CNN Turk. Here, he served as the General Manager of CNN Turk, ANS International Production Company, CEO of Turkish Daily News, helped launch Kanal D Romania. He is currently the President of Dogan Media International and Advisor to the CEO of Dogan Media Group. He is also a Board Member of Kanal D Romania.

He owns two private companies: One publishes books (InterMedia International Communication Corporation) and the other gives corporate publicity services (NMC New Media Company Television and Advertisement Corporation).

He is serving as Executive Board Members of Istanbul Arts & Culture Foundation and Contemporary Istanbul, TV Broadcasters Association of Turkey after serving as her President for ten years.

He has three children and two grandchildren.

Source: Abu Dhabi Media Summit


Another article on Nuri:

Interview with Nuri Colakoglu on Istanbul's 2010 Cultural Capital Bid