Levent Gultekin

‘Religious Conservatism and the AKP before Snap Elections of 1st November 2015’

Mr Levent Gultekin is currently a columnist for Diken.com.tr. He studied Public Administration at Anadolu University in Eskisehir and completed his Master of Arts in International Relations in Selcuk University. Mr Gultekin began his journalism career in 1994 at daily Yeni Safak. He left Yeni Safak and published a daily newspaper, Haber Postasi, in 1998. He returned to Yeni Safak as Director General in 1999. He left his position at Yeni Safak in 2000 and published a magazine called Gercek Hayat for about 5 years. He joined Star Medya Group as Deputy Chairman of Executive Board of Directors in 2007. Mr Gultekin left Star Medya and went to London for language training. Following his return in 2010 he began working at Cine5 as Chairman of Media, but he left Cine5 in mid-2010. His articled have been published on Internethaber.com and Gazeteciler.com for many years.