Hakan Celik is a Turkish journalist, TV anchorman and radio host.[1] [2]
He graduated from the Faculty of Communications of Istanbul University in 1990, and took his M.A. from the Faculty of Political Sciences of the same university upon his thesis on the Political Structure of the European Union. He also attended a graduate program on science fiction movies at the Department of Radio and Television of the Faculty of Communications.
He entered the media world in the newspaper Günaydın in 1988, and became Turkey’s one of the first private radio broadcasters, which began in early 1990s in Glasgow at the BBC as an intern. During the same period he also worked at The Herald, one of the most prestigious newspapers of Britain. Later he joined the staff to found Hür FM, a Hürriyet Radio, and he produced shows for Show Radio, Genç Radio and NTV Radio.
Since 1997 he is a columnist in the newspaper Posta[3][4] and since 2005 he is the representative of the same paper in Ankara. He continued in producing radio and television shows and for three years he was the producer and presenter of the TV show Weekend of the TV channel Haberturk, which, upon the death of founder, Ufuk Güldemir, was sold to Ciner Group. Later, since February 2008, he is the weekend moderator of the morning shows of the channel Kanal 24.[5] He used to be a commentator of the program "Haber-Yorum" on TRT Radio 1 between January 2010-July 2011, and a contributor and commentator for another TRT Radio 1 program "Gündem".
Hakan Celik won a scholarship from the British Foreign Office and went to London in 1992, and he gave conferences in Germany, Japan and the U.S. upon invitations from these governments. He travelled in more than 100 countries as a journalist and received awards from many institutions for his professional achievements.
Until now he made interviews[6] with political and religious leaders of the world including Cuban President Fidel Castro, Pope Benedict XVI and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. He is a journalist who also writes articles advocating interreligious dialogue and cultural and political interaction not only with the Greek, Armenian and Jewish communities in Turkey but also among the minorities in the whole world.[7]
He is also active in music and he is the producer and the presenter of the music show Tren Yolculuğu on TRT Radio 3 on every Sunday evening. His interests vary widely from classical and popular music[8] to vehicles such as automobiles and aeroplanes,.[9][10]He is also an highly accredited automative critic and an automobile columnist in the newspaper "Posta"[11] and "otomobilport.com"[12]. He is experienced in voice dubbing as well and he has done many voice overs for TV commercials. Also he has a twitter account (twitter.com/hakanchelik)