A SUPPORT CAMPAIGN FOR FUGEN GULERTEKIN

About the panelists:

HALUK SAHIN is author, acedemic, media professional. He has been active in media practice and teaching over the past 30 years.

After graduating from Istanbul University (1964) where he studied Law, he received two graduate degrees from Indiana University in the United States: M.A. in Journalism and Ph. D. in Mass Communications (1974). He taught in American Universities including the University of Maryland in College Park, where he was Associate Professor of Journalism until 1984.

His academic research and theoretical works were published in the leading journals in the field including the Journal of Communication, Journalism Quarterly, Media Culture and Society. He has also written, published, and lectured extensively on all aspects of mass media in Turkish. His book on The New Communication Order, Democracy and Freedom of the Press was published by the Press Council of Turkey (1992). Dr. Sahin has gained extensive experience in many fields of media work. He was honored as journalist of the year in the category of current affairs commentary by the Turkish of Journalists twice.

His essays and other writings have been published in eight books. His play ÒThe Megaloman is the GreatestÓ, a political satire, was staged in Istanbul in more than 150 performances. Dr. Sahin has been the editor of Arena, Turkey's leading investigative television news program produced by Ugur Dundar, ever since its first program in 1992. Weekly Arena has won many international and national awards. He also held the position of the News Coordinator of Kanal D between 1996 and 1999.

His columns appear in the prestigious Istanbul daily, Radikal, four times a week. He is a full professor of journalism at Istanbul Bilgi University. Dr. SahinÕs most recent book, a work of investigative journalism about a Turkish child care provider in Columbus, Ohio, was a best-seller in Turkey (1999) and is being translated into English. It will be published under the title of ÒOhio Express: The Incredible Story of Injustice against Fugen GulertekinÓ in the summer of 2000.

DOGAN ULUC is a journalist , interviewer and columnist for Hurriyet Turkish Newspaper. He has been the U.S. Bureau Chief of Hurriyet since 1970.

Mr. Uluc joined Hurriyet in 1960 and served as a foreign correspondent since 1964, where she was stationed in London until 1970. He was then transferred to New York to assume his present position.

Around the world, he has covered topics ranging from war, revolutions, guerrilla warfare, international conventions, political and cultural events, natural disasters and sporting events including the Olympics and World Championships.

He has interviewed assassins and spies in prison and hundreds of celebrities from heads of state and government leaders to scientists and inventors, businessmen and movie stars.

He was presented with the prestigious ÒColumnis of the YearÓ award by the Istanbul Gazeteciler Cemiyeti. He has also received awards from numerous Turkish-American Associations for his services to the Turkish-American community.

Mr. Uluc has served as president of the United Nations Correspondents Assocation, and published ÒU.N. DiplomatÓ magazine, ÒTurkey YearbookÓ and ÒAnavatanÓ newspaper.

Dogan Uluc has been covering Fugen GulertekinÕs story from her home, in court and prison, since the beginning of her quest for justice and freedom.

NANCY S. ERICKSON, Esq.; has a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and an LL.M. from Yale Law School. She is employed as a Senior Trial Attorney by Legal Services for New York, Brooklyn Branch.

For over ten years she was a professor of law, heaching at New York Law School, Cornell, Ohio State, New York University, and Seton Hall Law School.

When she was teaching at Ohio State University College of Law, in Columbus, Ohio, she met Fugen Gulertekin, who cared for her daughter Laura for almost five years, from infancy until the family returned to New York City in 1986. She and Fugen became close friends, and they kept in touch.

Nancy Erikson then worked as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the New York City Law Departmen, an attorney with the Legislative Unit of the New York City Human Reseources Administration, an attorney with the National Center on Women and Family, a Seniyor Associate at a large Manhattan law firm, and a solo practitioner.

She has written several books and many articles on family law, including child support, costody, marital property, domestic violence, and adoption.

Eight Years in Jail for Saving a Life:
Fugen Gulertekin's Story -I-

A SUPPORT CAMPAING FOR FUGEN GULERTEKIN (Media Release)

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