Thursday, April 19, 2018 2pm
About this Event
Onur Burçak Belli is ais a freelance journalist from Turkey. She mainly covers politics, political conflicts and socio-political subjects in Turkey, Syria and the broader Middle East. She has closely followed the war in Syria covering it as a reporter and a field producer based in Damascus. Burcak Belli has focused mainly on the Kurdish conflict, war in Syria, refugees and migration matters, Turkish foreign policy, European Union policies and its broader affects but has reported on many other important topics.
She started her career as a journalist at the Turkish Daily News (now Hurriyet Daily News) at Turkey’s leading media conglomerate. She successively worked for Newsweek Turkey, HaberTurk TV, RTL, BBC World Service, Channel 4 News, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, and more.
Burcak Belli will talk about the current situation of Syrian refugees and the Turkish diaspora in Germany, especially recent exiles, mostly journalists and intellectuals - their current plight in Germany and their dilemma of not being free to express themselves despite the fact that they sought refuge in a democratic society.
The event is presented by the German Studies Program as part of “The German Exile Experience” Course,
German 375, the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library and the Villa Aurora Thomas Mann House
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