The KGK delegation, including veteran journalist and writer Yavuz Donat, went to Adıyaman by air from Istanbul and Ankara. The delegation that met in Adıyaman included KGK Chairman Dim, as well as KGK Board of Directors Deputy Chairman Bülent Aydemir, Deputy Chairman Kahraman Halisçelik, General Secretary Lütfü Karakaş, Board members Nalan Yazgan, Hayati Arıgan, İbrahim Aslan, Hacı Odabaş. Deputy Financial Chairman Yakup Aslan, Mainstream Media Assembly Deputy Chairman Ferhat Yıldırım, Local Media Assembly Chairman Ümit Babacan, Audit Board Chairman Yusuf Ziya Çakır and Provincial Representatives Osmaniye İsrafil Avcı, Diyarbakır Mehmet Çakan, Batman Ercan Arslan, Tokat Kemal Özdilek, Kilis Mahmut Özbalcı, Şanlıurfa Celal Çiftçi, Erzincan Suhabi Okumuş, Ağrı Nihat Aydın, Şırnak Halil Coşkun, Niğde Şerife Türkeş and Balıkesir Mehmet Yarma and Mainstream Media Council Member Tolga Şardan also took part.
KGK MANAGEMENT MEETED
In addition, the KGK board of directors held an extraordinary meeting in Adıyaman, which was badly damaged by the earthquakes of February 6, 2023. It was decided to make more contributions to disaster-affected journalists and media organizations damaged by the earthquake and to increase visits to earthquake provinces. The reduced meeting of the Local Media Council will also be held in Adıyaman.
ARSLAN: THIS VISIT MADE US EMOTIONAL
KGK Board Member and Adıyaman Provincial Representative İbrahim Arslan said, “We would like to thank our Global Journalists Council (KGK) Chairman Mr. Mehmet Ali Dim, Global Journalists Council board members and Global Journalists from other provinces of Turkey who came to our city and shared our pain due to the February 6 earthquake. The visits of the Council representatives touched us. We all visited Adıyaman Central Cemetery and left carnations on the graves of our colleagues and citizens who were martyred in the earthquake and prayed for them. "We would like to thank our guests for their presence in our city," he said.
DIM: WE WILL ALSO VISIT THEIR FAMILIES
Stating that they wanted to visit the families of the journalists who were martyred in the earthquake, KGK Chairman Dim said: “May the souls of our 32 colleagues who lost their lives in the disaster of the century rest in peace. We will visit the earthquake area again in the coming days. We will also visit the grieving families of our colleagues. "We are planning to visit 11 points in the region, especially Hatay, Osmaniye, Kahramanmaraş, Gaziantep Nurdağı, İslahiye and Malatya," he said.
EARTHQUAKE MARTYRS JOURNALISTS
Ayşe Figen Arlı (İskenderun Ses), Aziz Çevlik (Headline/K.Maraş), Burak Alkuş (Adıyaman Ses), Burak Milli (AA/Hatay), Gökhan Aklan (İHA/Hatay), Hidayet Özdemir (Journalist-Writer/Adıyaman) , İskender Korkut (Mercan TV/Adıyaman), İzzet Nazlı (DHA/Hatay), Kemal Öner (Adıyaman Telegraph), Meltem Özgen (TV presenter/Adana), Muhammed Akan (Adıyaman News), Mustafa Yuzbaoğlu (Today/K.Maraş) , Neşet Alkan (Haber Ekspres/Hatay), Ruhi Akan (Jet Haber/Adıyaman), Yunus Emre Doğan (Mercan TV/Adıyaman), Zübeyir Pektaş (Halkın Sesi/Adıyaman), Fatih Bayın (Radyo Tek/Adıyaman), Fatih Nalbantbaşı ( Maraş Media Center), Erhan Yılmaz (23 July/Hatay), Hasan Seid OKAY (Antakya Journalists Association Member/former journalist), Mehmet Tekin (Founding member of Antakya Journalists Association/writer), Haluk Arlı (Former journalist/Hatay)
İsmail Hakkı Koçak (Mercan TV/Adıyaman), Yaşar Hamurcu (Retired journalist/Adıyaman), Mehmet Ünsal (Day View/Layout/Adıyaman), Aynur Göksu (Day View/Editor/Adıyaman), Zafer İnli (Hatay Söz Newspaper/Hatay) , Ayhan Gümüşsoy (Haykırış Newspaper/Beyzade FM/TV/Hatay), Rafi Sümbültepe (President of Arsuz Journalists Association/Hatay), İsmail Karaoğlan (Antakya Newspaper/Writer/Hatay), İ. Barış Can Tabakçı (Anadolu News Agency/Adıyaman), Fatma Erdoğan (Nurdağı Newspaper/Grafiker/Gaziantep)
