Football in Turkey

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Biographies

Ahmet Talimciler
Ahmet Talimciler was born in 1970 in Izmir. He graduated from the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Literature at Ege University. He completed his Master’s thesis titled “Football Fanaticism and Media Relationship in Turkey” in 1998 and his PhD thesis, titled “The Relationship between Football and Ideology in Turkey”, in 2005. He won the award for “Social Sciences of Milliyet Newspaper” in 2000. He is interested in sport sociology, representation of sports in the media, popular culture, and the relationship between sport- sociology and speech. He presents the radio programme called “Arka Plan” on TRT Izmir Kent Radio every Tuesday evening.

Altuğ Akın
Altuğ Akın is an assistant professor doctor in the Faculty of Communication at Izmir University of Economics in Turkey. His research focus is mainly about broadly defined communication/media practices that extend beyond national borders and scales. In this context, the Turkish media experience – particularly in relation with Europe and the Middle East – constitutes the core of his research activities. Altuğ Akın completed his doctoral studies in audio-visual communication at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain and his master’s studies in journalism studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. Akın was a visiting scholar at Annenberg School for Communication at UPENN between 2015 and 2016. Parallel to his academic career, Altuğ Akın contributes to several media outlets, including the BBC World Service Turkish Section, where he worked as a journalist. He currently teaches at the Department of Media and Communication at Izmir University of Economics, practices freelance journalism, and translates literature from Spanish to Turkish.

Barış Gülenç
Barış Gülenç completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Medicine at Istanbul University in 2009 and earned his master’s degree at the same university in 2015. He worked as a research assistant in Istanbul University. He has been working as in the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Istanbul Medipol University.

Ersin Kuyucu
Kuyucu completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Medicine at Ege University. He worked as a research assistant in Pittsburgh University for sport surgery in 2012, and in the Hannover Sportsclinic Department of Orthopedics ← 7 | 8 → and Traumatology in 2013. He has awards and certificates from the European Congress of Orthopedics and Traumatology-EFROT 2013 (Jacques Duparc Award for best paper) and from the Bone and Joint Surgery Congress in 2016 (Best Experimental studies 1. Liga awards). He has various international articles and proceedings about orthopedics and traumatology. He has been working as an ass. professor in the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at Istanbul Medipol University.

Güven Büyükbaykal
Güven Büyükbaykal completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Public Relations and Advertising at Istanbul University and earned his master’s degree in Public Relations and Advertising in the Social Sciences Institute of Istanbul University. In the same way, he was awarded his doctorate degree in Journalism from the same institute of Istanbul University. Currently, he is working as an associate professor in the Department of Journalism in the School of Communications at Istanbul University, and has been teaching Sports Press, Economy Press, Press Management and Sports Industry courses in this department. Apart form his national and international articles, he has published two books, namely “The Position and Importance of Promotion Integration in the Banking Sector” and “The Position and Importance of Football in Print Media in Turkey from the Past to the Present.”

Mehmet Erdil
Erdil completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Medicine at Istanbul University. He worked as an assistant at Istanbul University. He worked as a research assistant in Pittsburgh University for sport surgery in 2012. He worked as an ass. professor at Bezmialem University in Istanbul. Erdil has various international articles, proceedings and book chapters about orthopedics and traumatology. He has been working as an associate professor in the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at Istanbul Medipol University.

Müge Demir
Müge Demir completed her undergraduate studies in the Department of Journalism at Ege University and earned her master’s degree in Journalism from the Social Sciences Institute of Ege University. In the same way, she was awarded her doctorate degree in Journalism by the same institute. Currently, she is been working as an associate professor in the Department of New Media and Communication Systems in the School of Communications at Istanbul Medipol University and has been teaching Media History, New Media, and Communication courses in this department. She is interested in sport media, football, the representation of sports ← 8 | 9 → in the media, hate speech and football. She has various national and international articles, proceedings and book chapters and she has published five books, namely “Health News and Media Reality”, “Football and Favors”, “New Media”, “New Media Vol. 2” and “Journalism and New Media”.

Nefise Bulgu
Nefise Bulgu completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Hacettepe in Ankara, Turkey. She is currently working as a professor at the Faculty of Sport Sciences. Her research interests include sport sociology. She focuses on masculinity, identity, violence, nationalism, culture and gender in sport and daily life. Her recent interests are children’s rights and injuries in sports. ← 9 | 10 →

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