Producers

Hürriyet Aydın Ok:  As a video and photography enthusiast, Hürriyet attended studio production classes at Fairfax Public Access (FPA) in 2004 and opened a new chapter in his life as Turkish American TV (TATV) producer. The American Turkish Association (ATA-DC) and Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA) presented him with community service and excellence in media awards, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. FPA and Prince George’s Community Television (PGCTV) recognized the “Turkish-American Hour” programs as distinguished productions. Hurriyet was a member of the IT leadership team for over 24 years at the World Bank. Currently he is a research fellow at GWU and teaching courses in augmented and virtual reality and cyber security.

Erkan Polat: A local lad raised in the DC and NoVA metro region, Erkan earned his Bachelor’s in Science in Film & Television studies from Full Sail University in Winter Park, FL. While his 9-5 has him working for a globally recognized nonfiction TV company, he is also an independent media professional of 15+ years who wears many hats. From film and television to photography, theater, acting, spoken word poetry, audio recording, and graphic design, he is a true multimedia pro who is in his element whenever he can share stories. He has been a line producer and editor for TATV for over a decade.

Production Advisors

Ercüment Akman:  Ercüment Akman is TATV’s production consultant. He also hosts TATV programs on Turkish Cuisine, Ottoman history and political issues. A practicing architect from Turkey he practiced in Canada and USA for more than 40 years. He taught courses at Georgetown University, The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service on Turkey and the Balkans and post graduate programs for Real Estate. He curated Turkish Film programs at Freer and Sackler, and National Gallery of Art, and Goethe Institute in Washington DC. For many years he was a consultant for the London Turkish Film Festival. Since 1997, he is the editor of www.turkfilm.blogspot.com (Turkish Cinema Newsletter), the oldest website published entirely in English on Turkish Cinema.

İbrahim Türk: A graduate of Mimar Sinan University Cinema-TV Institute, Ibrahim took part in the production of TV programs and series, advertising films and music videos in Turkey. He wrote newspaper and magazine articles and published books about Turkish Cinema. He joined the TATV team in 2006. He continues to work as an independent filmmaker, TV producer and cameraman.

Şefik Çardak: Sefik Cardak has been an advisor and mentor since TATV was established. He directed studio productions and edited shows. After retiring from World Bank Group as the manager of the “Conference Coordination” unit in 2005, he has been working as a consultant in a US Federal Government Contractor Firm.

Program Hosts

Courtney Clarke: Courtney joined the Turkish American TV volunteer team in 2019 and supports the program as an on-air host. When not volunteering with TATV, she works as a Marketing Manager for the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. Her career in marketing began in sports and entertainment, with a portfolio that includes work with American Express, Madison Square Garden, The Bowery Presents, Ticketmaster, AEG, The Houston Texans and the Houston Rockets. In 2014, she moved over to the healthcare vertical, working for Texas Children’s Hospital and MD Anderson Cancer Center. In 2010, she interned for the United Nations and created the first inter-agency social media working group, and worked with teens around the world on the 2010 Youth Issue of the UN Chronicle publication. In 2008 she served the U.S. Military as a cadet in Harvard’s Army ROTC. Before graduate school, she was an activist and founded a 501C3 to raise awareness about environmental issues, and lobbied on Capitol Hill for systemic change. Her favorite segments on Turkish American Television include interviews with local chefs, student athletes, artists and high school students leading their school in environmental efforts. She graduated from Harvard University Extension School with an ALM in Journalism, and from Wellesley College with a B.A. in Cinema and Media Studies.

Gökşın Carey: A well known Artist in the town of Middleburg, her six feet bronze fox sculpture monument found a permanent place in front of The Middleburg Community Center plaza. She is an associate member of National Sculpture Society NSS, member of Virginia Equine Artists and is certified through American Academy of Equine Art, Kentucky 2009. Yet she started as a self-taught artist whose love of nature and animals, especially horses find a voice in her hands as sculpture. She has hosted TV shows at TATV  Turkish American TV since 2005. She is a well-established  instructor, teaches equine sculpting workshops on Zoom online, week long intense classes at the National Sports Library and Museum, and Artists in Middleburg Gallery since 2014 with well over 300 local out of state and overseas students. She loves to paint horses, take nature or horse photographs and produces short documentary films on horses. Ms. Carey has been featured in numerous newspaper and magazine articles including Elan magazine. She was chosen for the “TURKISH COMMUNITY STAR AWARDS, BEST ARTIST OF 2015”. Her website is sculptinghorses.com

Özge Övün Sert: A freelance journalist and TV host/reporter based in Washington, DC. Her latest work “Batı Yakası”, a 60-min. news programme, had been aired by Turkish State Television TRT. She anchored the show for two seasons in which her interviews with U.S. officials, world renowned experts and academics -such as Noam Chomsky- have been seen as an “eye opener” in regards to U.S-Turkish relations and regional politics. Batı Yakası was TRT Haber’s first news program that featured background interviews and reports from the U.S. Capitol. Prior to Batı Yakası, she worked for Voice of America where she hosted numerous TV and live radio shows; conducted interviews; prepared feature stories and news reports. She anchored VOA’ s first Turkish TV show Gündem for over 8 years. Özge recently worked for National Geographic. Özge Övün-Sert holds a BA degree from Marmara University, School of Communication and a masters (MBA) from University of Maryland. She is a freshly licensed real estate agent and married to another well-known member of Turkish-American community member, Yalcin Sert. The couple lives in Fairfax, VA with their two children Duru and Bartu. 

Digital Strategy and Web Technology Advisors

Emre Sağlam: A leader in information security field, Emre is a graduate of Galatasaray and George Washington Universities. He is a founding member of TATV.

Doğan Kumova: Doğan Kumova has been interested in videography and photography since childhood. Since 2000, he started as a graphic designer in Prestige Publishing. Later, he worked as the production director at “ULUSAL KANAL” television. Since 2004, for 16 years, he has taken over the information technologies specialist and creative consultancy at TUSIAD. Dogan Kumova, is also a keyboard player and a musician, has been living in America for 1 year. he supports for TATV’s new website and infrastructure

Correspondents & Production Assistants

Akın Orbay is a music producer, composer, arranger and drummer. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music with degrees in Contemporary Writing and Production and Professional Music. Proficient in Electronic Music, Pop and Hip Hop, he provided music to libraries such as Red Bull Sound Supply, Audio Network and Harmony Music, as well as entities like Blue Cross Blue Shield, Morgan Stanley and Turkish American Television, and Turkish non-profit Active Life Organization. He provided sound design for the movie/art installation Bliss, featured in the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2017. He is currently active in Los Angeles and Istanbul.

Deniz Mehmed: Took studio production for TV and vocalization courses at Fairfax Public Access (FPA) in 2004. Deniz is a founding member of TATV. After graduating from the University of Maryland, he did his MBA at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, working in PPC advertising.

Ece Muniroglu Ece Muniroglu is a Los Angeles based composer, orchestrator, and arranger working on a variety of projects, including feature films and TV shows. Ece’s music has given life to several award-winning short films and she continues to collaborate with international composers. Project highlights include music composition for 52 episodes of animated children’s show “Fafa” in collaboration with composer Emir Isilay. Additionally, Ece has written promotional music for the First Annual Hollywood Turkish Film Festival directed by Tekin Girgin, which premiered in Paramount Studios. A native of Istanbul, Muniroglu was classically trained as an accomplished pianist and later earned her bachelor’s degree in composition and music production from Berklee College of Music. In addition to her music studies, she also holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the well-renowned Istanbul Technical University.

Elif Bor: Elif holds a Master’s in Applied Developmental Psychology from George Mason University and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Ege University. She has been conducting research on policy and practice-relevant issues in the field of education for over 10 years. Elif joined TATV as a program host in 2009 and currently works behind the camera.

Lisa Tuvalo: Lisa Tuvalo earned her B.S. in biochemistry at the University of Maryland, College Park.  She worked for three years as a Biologist I at the American Type Culture Collection in Maryland, extracting DNA from blood cells.  Later, she moved to New York City and studied acting and performed off-off Broadway for 6 years and did improv for an entire year with the Grown-Up’s Playground at the New York Comedy Club. Afterwards, she studied directing at the School of Visual Arts, where her thesis film, “Behind Locked Doors:  The Triangle Fire,” won the William Arkell award ($5000) as the best short film by a senior.  In addition, she was the first female student to win a finishing grant ($1500)  from New York Women in Film and TV.  Recently, she co-produced the podcast, “RaceTODAY!” and she is developing a mystery podcast and tv show based on a New York Times bestseller, a historical docudrama, and a  rock musical for film and stage.

Metecan Erdi: As an amateur photographer and seasoned scientist, Metecan has always been fascinated by visual media as explored through advanced technological lenses for educational purposes. He joined the University of Maryland’s Turkish Student Organization (UMD-TSO) in 2016, and has served in roles as Vice President and Graduate Advisor since. He is also a member of the Turkish American Television (TATV) production team. Currently, Metecan is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UMD, and is conducting research on in vivo biomedical materials with high translational capacity.

Özgür Cobutoğlu: A professional cinematographer, film and news editor, Özgür is the TATV correspondent in Istanbul. He started his professional career in Fenerbahçe Sports Club Media Group. Cobutoğlu took part in successful projects in the fields of music, stage design and organization at Tevfik Gelenbe Theater and Bakırköy Municipality Theaters. Since 2009, he has been working as director and cameraman in media production companies and TV channels such as ART Akdeniz TV, Genç TV, Star TV, TGRT HABER, TRT BELGESEL, RNZ YAPIM, OCT YAPIM, Life Time TV, and TV8.

Selim Yargıcı:  A strategy expert with extensive experience in the mobile technology environment. His industry experience includes technology, media & entertainment, telecommunications, public sector, and education. Selim holds an MBA from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and a Computer Science degree from Georgetown University.

Yalcin Sert: After completing his undergraduate and master’s degree in Environmental Engineering at Middle East Technical University, he came to the University of Maryland at College Park and received his second master’s in Civil Engineering. He started his career in the USA as a software developer at a public health and environmental consulting company. As he excels in the information technologies field, he completed a master’s degree in computer systems management at the University of Maryland Global College and started consulting with the federal government. He joined TATV to support his wife Özge Övün Sert, helping on internet activities and as a cameraman.

Director of Public Relations

Tuğba Erpek: Joined Turkish American TV volunteer team in 2013. She has been supporting TATV in social media management and public relations. Dr. Erpek received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA and Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA, respectively. She has been working at a research and development firm in Maryland.

News Editor

Yonca Doğan: Born and raised in Istanbul, she graduated from the University of Istanbul School of Communication, Radio-TV branch. She first came to the United States in 1992. After under graduate and graduate studies at the University of Houston in communication and journalism, she received her master’s degree in mass communication from the Texas Tech University. She went back to İstanbul, Turkey in 2005 and came back to the U.S. in 2017. She worked in various international media institutions in both Turkish and English as a correspondent, editor, columnist, and radio and TV host and program producer. Co-authored and edited “A Guide for News Writers Against Discriminatory Language” (With a research and publications grant from Punto24, 2015, 2nd edition 2016; written for Turkish journalists and journalism students). She has been with TATV since 2019. Currently, she works as a writer-editor at a media office of a government institution.

Graphis Design and Visual Arts Advisor

Sıtkı Kazancı: Graphic designer, cartoonist, publisher, and entrepreneur. He has a full-service award-winning advertising agency and publishing company. His cartoons and photography have been exhibited in Turkey and the U.S. He has received several graphic design awards. He is currently president of ATADC – The American Turkish Association of Washington DC which is one of the oldest and very active Turkish Association in the US. He has been an organizing committee for the annual Turkish Festival in DC since its inception. He is a graduate of the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington DC. He lives in Virginia with his wife and daughter.

Former TATV Production Team Members

The first TATV host Dr. Yasemin Kilical graduated from George Washington University where she received her Bachelor’s of Science. She went on to Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, completing her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree. After she completed her one year of General Dentistry residency at the Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, she had two years of specialty training at Interfaith Mexican Center in Pediatric Dentistry. She stayed on at Bronx-Lebanon as a faculty member and she now works in private practice in the New York and New Jersey area. Dr. Kilical is married to Dr. Mousavi, an Interventional Radiologist practicing in NJ, and they have three beautiful daughters. When not practicing dentistry, Dr. Kilical enjoys traveling and baking cakes with her kids.

Sema Muslu: A first generation Turkish American, she has been an active member of the Turkish American community since she was a student. First she started with ATSA-DC dance troupe, moving onto becoming a founding member of the Kardelen Turkish Dance Ensemble. After serving as an active member, she joined the ATA-DC board, during which time she also served as one of the hosts on the Turkish American Television. For a short time, she served as a program assistant for the Turkish Coalition of America and the Turkish Cultural Foundation before moving onto her government contract job. Her Turkish identity has been a very important part of her life and has appreciated all of the opportunities to support these activities. Currently she works at SAP Concur and lives in McLean, VA with her husband.

Dr. Semahat Demir: While serving as the Director of Biomedical Engineering at National Science Foundation (NSF), she volunteered to serve as a TATV host at scientific, educational and cultural events. She served on the boards of ATA-DC and TASSA (Turkish American  Scientists and Scholars Association) and participated in the choir of the Turkish Folk Music Group in Washington DC. After returning to Istanbul in 2012, she gave great importance to the cinema and television academic programs and cinema festivals at the Kultur University where she served as the Rector. Prof. Demir is the Chair of the Board of Science Heroes Association which has the goals to make science the focus of society  and to organize projects and tournaments that make 6-19 year old students love science.

Gamze Cakmak: She is one of the founding members of the Turkish-American TV. She worked for the very first private TV channels of Turkey during their establishment phases in various positions and worked for Turkish Radio and Television as a voice actor as a paid hobby ?. After working as a management consultant and trainer for years, she moved to the U.S. in 2000. She lives in Bethesda, MD with her husband and two daughters and continues to serve as an adult-learning consultant along with the position of the Secretary of Board of Directors of ATA-DC.  

Özgül Andıcan: Former host for TATV, Özgül volunteered during 2012-2015 operating both behind and on camera. While on-screen, she hosted programs in English featuring guests whom she interviewed on a variety of topics both related to and outside of Turkish culture, garnering interest from an American audience. To increase her knowledge of media, she also took classes at FAirfax Public Access related to Camera work, Editing and Production. Currently, she works in the IT sector where she is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and SAFe Scrum Master (SSM).

Pınar Walter is an alumni of the Istanbul University , Faculty of Economics, Department of International Relations. She has completed her master’s in the same department on “Israeli and Palestinian conflict” in the Political History of Late Professor Toktamış Ateş. She worked as an assistant of PR executive in Istanbul, as a radio presenter at London Turkish Radio,  as a customer  representative at London Stock Exchange company called Disclosure and as a PR, Sales and Marketing manager at a Telecommunication company. She  wrote travel articles and columns for a Free magazine published in Izmir and also worked  with Cüneyt  Özdemir  as a freelance writer at Turkey’s first digital  magazine called Dipnot . She has  been volunteering for Turkish American TV since 2008  as a guest coordinator while  working at East West Institute as a PR & Research Consultant. She is also interested in photography and architecture.

Ceyda Alaca Akdemir is an innovative marketer and strategist, with an MBA degree from George Washington University. She has volunteered at the TATV for a while as part of the production team. She started her journey at The Washington Post as an intern then eventually promoted to a Marketing manager position. 9 years later she gave a break to her career and currently working as a full time mom to two loving girls. She also supports/manages her family business in DC. For many years she passionately acted as a professional photographer at private and corporate events. 

Vera Kiera Dagli is a creative project manager. She obtains several academic degrees, Business Administration with an AA degree at Santa Monica College and Web Design and Coding at Anadolu University. She volunteered at TATV in 2017. Also, in a while, she continued her studies at Bahcesehir University by majoring in Cinema and TV.

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I’ve first met Hürriyet Ok through a friend, Akın Orbay. Mr. Hurriyet was looking for someone to shoot a video at MIT for a project that will be aired on TATV. I collaborated with an architect, and I helped them shoot the video. Having the architectural background, this was a very special project for me. We spent a day at the MIT campus, and found wonderful architectural details. That was the beginning of our collaboration with Hürriyet and TATV.

After I moved to Los Angeles in 2017, TATV aired a promotional video about me. It was about my professional life as a composer. Hürriyet guided me step by step for the preparation of the video. As a part of TATV, I also attended the Asian Film Festival, where there was the screening of “Ayla: The Daughter of Was” a Turkish Biography and Drama. I am very grateful to Hürriyet and TATV for all those beautiful collaborations and looking forward to more cooperation!

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Hello! My name is Akın Orbay and I am a correspondent with the Turkish American Television. I first worked with them through their Youth Video Contest, where I got to write a fanfare as the opening music, working closely with Hürriyet Ok. I later became a correspondent for the channel when I moved to Los Angeles, and got to cover the closing night of the Asian World Film Festival. This night featured the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to George Takei and the screening of his Broadway Musical, Allegiance. I hope to be a part of more stories and support this great channel in the future!

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“Peace and Harmony” Video Contest 2016 Title Screen Image. Please display this image for 5 seconds at the start of your video.

“Peace and Harmony” Video Contest Official Rules

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. BY PROVIDING A SUBMISSION, SUBMITTER (*) AGREES TO BE BOUND BY THESE OFFICIAL RULES AND THE DECISIONS OF THE JUDGES, WHICH SHALL BE FINAL IN ALL RESPECTS.

“Peace and Harmony” Video Contest encourages youth (29 years of age or younger) to engage with videography, audio-visual arts, and journalism. Videos should beat least 29 seconds long but no longer than 2.9 minutes. They will be judged by a panel consisting of Turkish American TV (TATV) production staff, videography professionals, and a member of the American Turkish Association of DC (ATA-DC) Board. A total of three winners will be selected from among the qualified submissions. All qualified submissions will be recognized in our press release on TATV web. See below for details.

1. CONTEST TIMING: The contest submission period begins at 0:01 a.m. EDT on Thursday, September 29, 2016 and ends at 11:29 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, November 30, 2016. Judging for the contest will take place between December 1, 2016 and December 15, 2016.

2. ELIGIBILITY: Anyone born in year 1987 or after and legally living/studying in the United States is eligible to compete with an original video production. Videos that are up to 2.9 minutes long are acceptable. TATV Production Staff and ATA-DC Board Members and their immediate families are not eligible.

3. AWARDS: A panel of judges will choose the winning video from the eligible submissions. The winning videos will be awarded (**) $1000 for the first-place, $500 for the second-place, and $250 for the third-place cash prizes in Fairfax, VA, on Sunday, December 18, 2016. TATV retains the rights to air the award-winning videos in upcoming TATV programs. If a finalist/winner is found to be ineligible or not in compliance with the Official Rules as stated herein, the prize(s) may be forfeited and an alternate winner may be selected by the jury.
4. TO ENTER: Before the submission deadline, upload your video (the “submission”) to either YouTube, Vimeo or Instagram and include the link to the video in the web based submission form, which is the official way for video submissions.  All submissions are subject to YouTube’s, Vimeo’s, and Instagram’s  terms of use found at www.youtube.com/t/terms, vimeo.com/terms, and help.instagram.com/478745558852511, respectively. To upload your submission, you must first create an account with YouTube, Vimeo, or Instagram. (For a free YouTube account, visit https://www.youtube.com/account and follow the online instructions for registration. The video’s format and size must follow the video upload guidelines for Youtube.com, available at www.youtube.com.) YouTube, Vimeo, and Instagram are not sponsors of this contest.

Submission guidelines:

• Explain how your video is expressing the “Peace and Harmony” theme.
• Video should be at least 29 seconds long and no more than 2.9 minutes long.
• Email a signed letter of consent from your legal guardian or parent if younger than 18 years old on 29 October 2016.
• Contain a 5 second title screen provided by TATV.
• Comply with these Official Rules and the submission guidelines as stated herein.

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5. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submissions cannot defame, misrepresent or contain disparaging remarks about any people, products or companies or communicate messages or images inconsistent with the positive images and/or goodwill with which ATA-DC and TATV wishes to associate. TATV reserves the right to and will monitor or screen submissions prior to posting them to the TATV website and the TATV YouTube and Vimeo webpages. By providing a submission, you agree that your submission may be posted on TATV-related websites at TATV’s sole discretion. TATV has no obligation to use or post any submission. By providing a submission, the submitter grants to TATV an exclusive, perpetual, and transferable license to copy, publish, broadcast, display, distribute, use, edit, translate, alter, combine with other material, reuse, and adapt any or all portions of the submission and the submitter’s name in any way and for any purpose whatsoever, at any time, now or in the future, in any media now known or hereafter devised throughout the world in any manner whatsoever and for any purpose. Submissions that are not in accordance with the guidelines as stated herein or are not received during the contest submission period will be ineligible. Submissions cannot (a) be sexually explicit or suggestive, violent or derogatory of any ethnic, racial, gender, religious, professional, or age group, profane or pornographic, contain nudity or any materially dangerous activity; (b) promote alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing), any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous, or any particular political agenda or message; (c) be obscene or offensive, endorse any form of hate or hate group; (d) contain trademarks, logos or trade dress owned by others, or advertise or promote any brand or product of any kind (other than the TATV’s logos, brands, or products) without permission, or contain any personal identification, such as license plate numbers, personal names, email addresses or street addresses without permission; (e) contain copyrighted materials owned by third parties other than the submitters(s) or TATV (including photographs, sculptures, paintings and other works of art or images published on or in websites, television, movies or other media) without permission; (f) contain materials embodying the names, likenesses, photographs, or other indicia identifying any person, living or dead, without permission; and (g) depict, and cannot itself be in, a violation of any law. By submitting a submission you warrant and represent that it: (a) is your or your team’s original work, (b) has not been previously published, (c) has not received previous awards, (d) does not infringe upon the copyrights, trademarks, rights of privacy, publicity, or other intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity; (e) that you have obtained permission from a person who is used in the submission or whose name, likeness or voice is used in the submission, if any, and (f) that publication of the submission via various media including online posting, will not infringe on the rights of any third party rights.

6. CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION: By participating in the contest, submitters (and submitter’s parent or legal guardian if the submitter is a minor) agree (and agree to confirm in writing) (a) to release TATV and ATA-DC from any and all claims, damages or liabilities arising from or relating to such submitter’s participation in the contest; and (b) waive all rights to claim punitive, incidental, consequential, or any other damages.

7. SPONSORS AND PROMOTERS: The sponsors of this contest are: Turkish American TV  (TATV) and the American Turkish Association of DC (ATA-DC).

(*) The person uploading the submission will be deemed the submitter. The submitter is the authorized account holder of the e-mail and URL addresses associated with that submission.

(**) The winners are responsible for any applicable taxes.

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As an architect and an economist, Bilgi Denel (1937, Istanbul-…) and Sener Ozsahin (1944, Gelibolu-….) are two graduates of Princeton University in the 1960s. In relation to the new geopolitics order in the world and cross-cultural exchanges between postwar Turkey and the US, the first-hand experience of these two significant figures has a potential to shed light on the emerging dynamics of culturally responsive teaching and learning milieu in universities in North America in that period and their influences on the constructive operations of gender within such a context. As they expressed, Bilgi Denel, one of the very few foreign students at Princeton University was the first “qualifying student with an engineering background from Turkey” at the School of Architecture in 1959. Considering cultural difference as an important resource in teaching, learning and the production of knowledge, his formative years were shaped by Professor Labatut and Professor Lickleider; and those years gave a transformative motivation for his academic career in Turkish and the US architecture. As a second significant figure, Sener Ozsahin’s decision to study at Princeton University was shaped by his close dialog with Mr. Carl Tobey, his first English teacher in Turkey and a graduate of Princeton University (Class of ’40). Pursuing his education as the first Turkish citizen to earn a Princeton undergraduate degree, he studied economics and his roots in this field come from Prof. W. Arthur Lewis, Prof. Frederic Harbison, Prof. Mancur Olson and Prof. William J. Baumol. Obtained his degree in Economics in 1966, he conducted a successful professional career at OYAK (Turkey’s first and privately-owned pension fund) and some leading holdings, such as Sabanci and Ekinciler in Turkey, and played an important role in organizing and promoting activities and dialogs among the graduates of Princeton in his native country, as the founder and the first president of the Alumni Association of Princeton University in Turkey. In the following interviews, their answers provide a significant contextual grounding for understanding the multicultural perspective evolving in North America in the 1960s and its impact on higher education as well as the gender’s multiple roles in constructing both cross-cultural exchanges and the exploration of new knowledge in their disciplines and professions. These two figures and their career paths also indicate why there is still a need more inclusive scholarly studies on history in relation to their special fields in that time period: In order to complete the record of the past and explore the historical production of gender knowledge within a multiple perspective.

Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D.

Cambridge, MA, June 24^th 2016.

Bilgi Denel: A 45 Year Teaching Career in Architecture

Bilgi Denel

Meral Ekincioglu: Dear Bilgi Denel, you are one of the pioneering figures who opened up new horizons for his students in architecture. Could you share your background in Turkey and in the US?

Bilgi Denel: I was born in Istanbul, in 1937, and grew up in Ankara. After my elementary school in Ankara, my father took me to Istanbul, to take something they called “tests” for three days at Robert College.  I had no idea what these were, but I thought they were entertaining; also, father had said that he would buy me a bike! I did get in (though the bike came much later!) and I was made a boarder. That meant I had to stay there even during the weekends since my family lived in Ankara then. To me, this place felt like a dungeon; I even refused to learn English – until I discovered the library, with thousands of books! This made the “dungeon” disappear for an eleven year old child!  In Robert College, I continued into its higher education program, and I graduated with a Degree in Civil Engineering in 1959. Engineering was a field my father thought as a good option, as the popular tendency in those years. Over the years, I had considered other venues and decided that architecture would have been much better for my abilities.

ME: How did you decide to pursue your education at Princeton University?

BD: I chose Princeton University somewhat arbitrarily. During the summer of my junior year, I wrote to a number of Graduate Schools of Architecture. I applied to 12 of those; I was accepted by 10. The Dean of the School of Architecture at Pennsylvania University, Holmes Perkins, interviewed me in Ankara and made an excellent offer to me. At the same time, Penn wrote to me that, as a foreign student, I could get very inexpensive season tickets to the Philadelphia Philharmonic. Being a music lover, I thought that I would spend all my time at concerts, and not find time to concentrate on my studies. That made me decline Penn! I decided on Princeton as a second choice. They informed me that I would be a qualifying student to take a whole bunch of undergraduate and graduate classes during the first year; I would do the regular graduate program starting the second year.

ME: Which department at Princeton University? Which years?

BD: Architecture Department. In 1959, I was one of the very few foreign students in architecture; the first “qualifying student with an engineering background from Turkey”. They did not quite know how to shape my program. In those early years, the school was somewhat racist and elitist, with no women students allowed. Fortunately, I had a few wonderful people who tutored me and nurtured my education. With a correct educational attitude, they observed my progress closely, trusted me, and pushed me forward at each step. The grading was pass/fail; with all passes, I was able to carry 5, 6, or more courses during a semester, spread over a variety of topics; I was always trying to catch up, and afterwards, introduced to another new challenge! Faculty and friends had a true shock once to find out that I did not even have a driver’s license when I could not design a parking lot properly! One learns quickly when one really wants this. From 1959 to 1961, my professional and cultural courses were completed (and I was able attend many great concerts as well), and after my 3^rd and Senior year Graduate Design, Professor Jean Labatut, head of the Graduate Design, told me that I would be ready do my Master’s Thesis Project and finish during the 2^nd semester of 1962-63.

ME: If you conduct a thesis at Princeton University, could you define it?

BD: 1959-1963. Professor Labatut was the Thesis Adviser for all Master’s Projects for all the 40+ years that he was at Princeton – a true master educator!  His title was Director of Graduate Studies. Students wrote a synopsis of what they will work on, in 100 words. Of course, I wanted to work on something big, tall, and heroic! He ordered me to do housing “indigenous” to Turkey! I did not quite know what that would encompass; this was the word we used before “vernacular” became fashionable.

When I told him that I did not know much about Turkish Indigenous Architecture, Professor Labatut intervened: They gave a scholarship money for that summer and sent a Turk (me) to Turkey, to learn something about Turkish vernacular architecture. My Master’s Thesis project was to design seven elementary village schools in the seven climactic regions of Turkey, using local materials available materials, climactic, and social factors, etc. I had 22 of 30X40” boards in color, where the reviewer could tell the different climates by my use of color on the drawings. My completed project of Master of Fine Arts in Architecture was successful and accepted. It is still at the so-called “Architecture Morgue” at Princeton, where sample graduate projects are kept as learning tools; I was told it was exhibited at the school, among a few others, as a sample of 1960s work a few years ago. This was the beginning of my life-long research on Vernacular Architecture in Turkey and elsewhere. My Ph.D. is from the Istanbul Technical University, not from Princeton.

ME: Is there any role model for you to conduct your career in the US, and in particular at Princeton University?

BD: Educators like Professor Labatut, Professor Lickleider, and others have been influential in shaping my learning and thought process. I realized early that you can not teach a student, but you can create incentives for a student to want to learn and teach himself.

ME: As Aliye Pekin Celik, the first woman architect from Princeton University states, you are one of the leading professors who influenced her career decision at that university. What would you like to share about your relation with her?

BD: In all, I had well over 6000 students. I usually have no idea in what course or time I had that person in my class since a new group comes after each semester.  However, I remember Aliye very well as a bright student, also responsible with good work habits, as I think of her work in juries. I also had her husband, Metin, as my student; I remember his work being very professional for a young student. I don’t remember many details, but she asked me if I could recommend her for Graduate studies at Princeton. I was pleased to recommend her and she got in.  I recommended her husband, Metin Çelik, for work at a friend’s professional office, where he worked for some 32 years or so until he retired. Both of them are very special people! I knew Aliye did very very well as a student, since a professor of mine wrote back to tell me that she became the 1^st female Graduate Student of the School and graduated with honors. We were very proud of her achievements (I recently found that letter and gave it to Aliye, very proudly!). Over the years we have met socially.

As far as METU courses, design juries and criticisms, etc., go, Aliye would remember much better.

ME: Did you conduct any common project with her in the US?

BD: No common projects in the US.

ME: Do you know any Turkish women (and male) architects in the US in the same period? (In the 1960s-1970s)?

BD: There are a few. Some studied and returned to Turkey.  METU had several programs to send their better students mostly to Penn and Pratt Institute at Brooklyn, NYC during the 1960s but I have lost contact with most by now.

ME: Did you return to Turkey after Princeton, or continue your career in the US?

BD: After Princeton starting in June, 1963, I worked for SOM in NY for over a year. The experience was fulfilling. I, then, taught at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA, Architecture Department, for a school year, to return to Turkey in 1965 for my military service duty. I applied Ministry of Education in Ankara to get my Princeton equivalence. The Ministry decided that Princeton’s degree was not so! I had to sue them, after 4 years, they concluded that I was right and I won the case and gained the right to pursue a career in architecture. In the meantime, I was offered a position to teach at METU; I accepted and stayed on.

In 1980, I accepted a position at Cal Poly State University, where I had taught before, in San Luis Obispo, CA. I chose to leave Turkey at that time since a bomb was thrown into my house in 1978. (As well as two other academics’ homes in the same building). Also, the generals took over again with results I did not approve of! At Cal Poly, I taught until 2004; I retired after a 45 year teaching career.

ME: Did you conduct any project in Turkey and the US?

BD: I was one of the founders of MESA, a design build firm in Ankara, in 1969. I had a hand in the design and building of +/-20,000 affordable housing in Turkey. By 1980, I severed my ties with MESA, but kept in very close relationship until January 2015 when the company was sold. At one time I had 43 former students from among METU Architecture graduates working in very responsible positions there. I did constant consulting for the firm all those years. Aside from teaching, I did no professional work in the US.

ME: Thank you for this interview.

Sener Ozsahin: A Successfull Career from Princeton University to the Professional World in Turkey

Photo 1- Sener Ozsahin in front of the Nassau Hall, Princeton University, 1963.

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Sener Ozsahin: I was one of the first 26 students of the Samsun Maarif Koleji (SK) in Samsun, Turkey. We were admitted on the basis of a nation-wide test system. SK was a state school established and opened in 1955 as a boarding school exclusively for boys. Students had to pay a yearly tuition. All science and English courses were taught in English by American and British teachers. The junior high school stage of the school consisted of a preparatory year for intensive English courses which was followed by 3 standard years. I graduated in June, 1959. SK was made coeducational in 1970’s.

SK had a high school program too. But for my high school education I     transferred to the TED Ankara Koleji, a renowned school in Ankara where again English and most science courses were taught in English by British teachers. I did not have to attend this school as a boarding student, since  my parents started residing in Ankara by then. Actually there were two separate but equal schools under the title TED Ankara Koleji in my time, one for the boys and the other for the girls. I graduated from this school in June, 1962. The two schools merged to become coeducational in 1964.

I had some very good teachers in the aforementioned schools. I have benefited from them immensely.

As for a role-model, this may sound rather odd but being perfectly honest I shall say I never had a role-model in my life in the true sense of the term. Of course I am shaped by the examples of the people who impressed me positively, or by those I revered and admired a lot. But surely this is an integral part of the psychology of personal development and it doesn’t need to project or manifest itself fully and tangibly in one certain person. There has not been  anybody whom I can say I chose as a role-model from top to toe for my education or for my career later.

SO: As I already explained rather briefly, there were very few Turkish students who went to the US colleges and Princeton had none. There were however some graduate school students and a few people assigned with teaching or research titles, i.e. permanent or visiting. I remember somewhat blurredly having heard that the number of Turkish students in all the States was slightly over one thousand in 1962. But I never had a chance to have this number confirmed officially.

Photo 2-Sener Ozsahin with students from Princeton University in front of the White House, 1963.

ME: Was there any other student from Turkey in your class when you begin your education at Princeton University? What would you like to say about students from Turkey at your department (their numbers, gender [women and male], their educational backgrounds, etc.) throughout your education at Princeton University?

SO: There was no Turkish student in the undergraduate school at Princeton during my freshman year. I found out to my surprise after graduation that I was the first Turkish citizen ever to earn a Princeton undergraduate degree.

In my freshman year a classmate of mine from SK who was already admitted to the Robert College in İstanbul, Turkey also applied to Princeton and was admitted at the cost of relinquishing his whole freshman year credits at the Robert College.

As I said there were already some Turkish students in the Princeton Graduate School though.

Photo 3-Sener Ozsahin in front of the White House, 1963.

ME: What would you like to say about the profiles of students (their nationality, sex, etc.), a multicultural perspective and diversity at the university and at your department?  

SO: Princeton University, established back in 1746 had the long tradition of being a university exclusively for men. It also had the reputation, I gathered of being the favorite school of prestige for the rich white peoples’ sons in the olden times. Throughout my college years women were not accepted to Princeton. However we had a very few number of female students in the “The Critical Languages Program” which included Turkish also.

Prospects of coeducation in Princeton was a very popular topic those days, discussed and debated extensively and intensively by the academicians, administrators and the alumni of the university. Princeton University eventually started admitting women in the undergraduate school 2 years after my graduation in 1966. I observed later that in about the same years the other men’s’ colleges in the US underwent similar transformation, just like some traditional women’s colleges (e.g. “seven sisters”) that became coeducational.

In the years (1962-66) of my college education at Princeton, there still was plenty of segregation and discrimination against the African Americans in the US. Those were the days when Martin Luther King, Jr. and like were waging a social struggle for equal civil rights. There used to be unpleasant incidents happening quite frequently.

By the time when I was admitted, Princeton University appeared to have a well-balanced admission program that safeguarded it from possible criticisms on cultural, racial or social class discrimination. It also had a big endowment of a scholarship program which was efficiently implemented and- even if not overtly pronounced – an objective of a minimum number of African American students to be admitted on a yearly basis.

There was only one incident in my freshman year when allegedly a barber in town refused to cut an African American man’s hair, claiming that the young man’s curly hair was too stiff. We, as some of the freshmen reacted severely to this incident and it was in the Princeton newspaper etc., but that was all. There was no problem of communication or attitude in this respect in the classes or on the campus. There were also some African foreign students who struck me as coming from some elite and high social classes of their countries. They did not mix much with Americans or African Americans. The university appeared to have balanced admission plans in overall for the foreign students as well.

ME: Do you think that there are some significant thresholds in your education at Princeton University after Turkey?  

SO: The way I see it, college education at Princeton meant an incredible amount of daily reading, taking notes of great ideas conveyed in the lectures,  analytical thinking and problem solving while proceeding always on the frontiers of knowledge. Moreover, it meant focusing and hard work.

My college experience at Princeton was like going over multiple thresholds of significance. Apart from the curricula and the material covered in the courses, I learned about writing papers or articles, as well as being able to debate around a subject scholarly or in a more civilized and efficient manner, about appreciating the value of time and using it efficiently, and being rational and consistent in presenting my views orally or in writing. I gained the skills of doing research independently at Princeton. I learned further about where and how the road to being a true intellectual began. Princeton helped me broaden my horizons. I can state with confidence today that the 4 years of college at Princeton provided me with a huge enlightenment and helped me raise my overall awareness to a considerably higher level.

ME: Which professors influenced/shaped your formative years at Princeton University? How?

SO: I must admit I was personally not in very close and affable contact with my professors at Princeton. But I was enormously impressed and influenced by the Economics lecturers in general, and by Prof. W. Arthur Lewis, Prof. Frederic Harbison, Prof. Mancur Olson and Prof. William J. Baumol, in particular.

ME: Was there any professor from Turkey at your department or at the university (if you know) around those years?

SO: I met during my time, 2 visiting professors of economics from Turkey who came to Princeton for one or two years. I must stress the fact that it is not my intention to be judgmental, unfair or offending to anyone in anyway, but in comparison to their Princeton colleagues I felt like they did not quite meet the academic standards and expectations of Princeton 100%. But please note that my impressions were only based on brief and informal or rather casual exchanges of view and I might have been mistaken very easily.

ME: If you wrote a thesis at Princeton University, could you briefly explain its scope, content, you’re your research problem? How and why did you study on this topic and research problem? Who was your adviser, etc.?

SO: Unlike most other colleges, the students at Princeton University are required to write a thesis in their senior year, which comprises an important part of earning their undergraduate degree. My thesis title was, “A Linear Programming Approach to the Agricultural Export Promotion in Turkey”. 

I was simply fascinated by the course I had taken on Linear and Nonlinear Programming applied particularly in Microeconomics. This was a fairly new concept at that time. What I had in mind for my thesis was to see if I could use the technique of linear programming alternatively at a macro level, particularly for the agricultural products of Turkey that may be exported on the basis of profit maximization. I thought it would be an original and challenging venture.

My first thesis advisor appointed by the Economics Department unfortunately was a total disappointment and was replaced later by Prof. Mancur Olson under whose excellent advisorship I completed my thesis with some delay, but successfully.

If I had to write a thesis at any academic level today I would choose a theoretical topic like: “Income Distribution and Economic Stability”.

ME: Do you think that your education at Princeton University and/or in the US has some positive effects on your future career? If yes, could you explain it?

SO: I do indeed: not because people in Turkey really knew about Princeton and appreciated what it meant to be a graduate of this school, but because of the inner qualities and self-confidence it gave me in coping with different circumstances and issues in life. ²

ME: Thank you for this interview.

¹ These interview questions were sent by e-mail (to Bilgi Denel on December 12th, 2015 and to Sener Ozsahin on May 30th, 2016) and that time period surprisinly coincided with the appointment of the first Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at Princeton University. See for this, Dienst, K., 2016, “LaTanya Buck named dean for diversity and inclusion”, https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S45/98/74C85/index.xml?section=topstories, accessed on April 5^th, 2016; and Salama, M., 2016, Princeton Hires First Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, http://www.insightintodiversity.com/princeton-hires-first-dean-for-diversity-and-inclusion/, accessed on June 15^th 2016.

² Following his degree from Princeton University, Sener Ozsahin obtained his Master degree in Economics from Ankara University in 1972. Throughout his professional career in Turkey, he worked at leading holdings, held executive positions and conducted significant projects, such as the establishment of the Lassa Project at Sabanci Holding. Retiring in 1993, he has many published articles and reports, such as “Turkish-European Manpower Movements” for USAID, “a Report on the Automotive Sector” for TUSES (the Turkish Social, Economic and Political Research Foundation), “Zero Poverty” for SHP (Social Democratic People’s Party in Turkey), “Cosmic Mechanics Theory (CMT)”, etc.

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