{"id":4685,"date":"2019-12-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media4democracy.org\/en\/gulsun-bilgehan-on-inonu\/"},"modified":"2019-12-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T00:00:00","slug":"gulsun-bilgehan-on-inonu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media4democracy.org\/en\/gulsun-bilgehan-on-inonu\/","title":{"rendered":"G\u00fcls\u00fcn Bilgehan on \u201c\u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SULTAN YAVUZ- Implemented by the Association of Journalists and implemented by the European Union, the Media for Democracy\/Democracy for Media Project (M4D) hosted G\u00fcls\u00fcn Bilgehan at the Press House in Ankara.<\/em> In her presentation titled \u201c\u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc\u201d Bilgehan talked about her late grandfather \u0130smet \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc, second president of Turkey, and his approach to democracy and the media.<br \/>\nAssociation of Journalists Chairman Nazmi Bilgin remarked that it was the anniversary of \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc\u2019s death in his opening speech and shared this memory: \u201cI couldn\u2019t ask \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc a question because in the first few years of the profession we were taught to first listen and then ask questions.\u00a0 Yet I remember holding the microphone to him, it was a very happy moment for me&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media4democracy.org\/public\/uploads\/editor\/M4D%20Etk.%20haberleri\/G%C3%BCls%C3%BCn%20Bilgehan\/DSC_0037.JPG\" style=\"float:left; height:200px; margin:5px 10px; width:300px\" \/>My father had many memories of \u0130smet Pasha, and despite being members of different political parties my father had a lot of respect for him. I\u2019d like to tell you about a memory; I was quite young and new in the profession. My father and I were quite distant but despite that I once said \u2018Father, your opposition to \u0130smet Pasha is not sufficient\u201d. He turned to me and said \u2018sit down\u2019 and took off his overcoat as he was just about to leave. I recall his last sentence \u2018Son, one does not simply oppose \u0130smet Pasha, he has too many medals\u2019. I\u2019m very fond of this memory, the more I live the more I realize how much my father valued \u0130smet \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00dclman \u201cBilgehan: someone right in the middle of politics and journalism\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nFollowing Chairman Bilgin, M4D Assistant Project Director Seva \u00dclman gave brief biographical information about Bilgehan: \u201cThe grandchild of \u0130smet \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc and the daugther Metin Toker, Bilgehan is someone who is right in the middle of journalism and politics\u201d. Reminding the audience that Bilgehan\u2019s husband Mustafa Bilgehan is also a press member \u00dclman remarked that Bilgehan\u2019s daughter Zeynep is still a correspondent in a famous newspaper. Born in Ankara, Bilgehan is a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Science, Department of International Relations and was elected as a member of parliament for CHP in 2002. Bilgehan also worked at the Council of Europe in which she served as the chair of the Gender Opportunities Equality Commission.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media4democracy.org\/public\/uploads\/editor\/M4D%20Etk.%20haberleri\/G%C3%BCls%C3%BCn%20Bilgehan\/DSC_0054.JPG\" style=\"float:right; height:183px; margin:5px 10px; width:275px\" \/><br \/>\nBilgehan was awarded the \u201cAbdi \u0130pek\u00e7i Award\u201d for her two-volume book \u201cMevhibe\u201d and \u201cFemale Writer of the Year\u201d too. Bilgehan was elected as general vice president for CHP in 2010 and remained in this position until 2011 during which she was elected as an MP for CHP. \u00dclman stated that Bilgehan was elected as an MP for CHP once again in 2015 and served as chairperson for the \u0130smet \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc Foundation for one term.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Bilgehan \u201cI was born into politics\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nStating that the universal problems of journalism still continue, G\u00fcls\u00fcn Bilgehan started her speech by quoting her father Metin Toker who said \u201cProvided that it is done humanely, journalism is the greatest profession in the world\u201d. Remarking that she grew up among politicians and journalists, Bilgehan\u2019s father Metin Toke (founder of Akis magazine) was arrested 15 days before she was born. Many intellectuals like her father Metin Toker spent time in Ulucanlar Prison, therefore her grandfather \u0130smet \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc wanted to name her \u201cG\u00fcls\u00fcn\u201d because it means \u201cone that always smiles\u201d in Turkish.<br \/>\nStating that her father Metin Toker had many important resources regarding the history of the Republic and the press, Bilgehan said she did her first internship <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media4democracy.org\/public\/uploads\/editor\/M4D%20Etk.%20haberleri\/G%C3%BCls%C3%BCn%20Bilgehan\/DSC_0069.JPG\" style=\"float:left; height:200px; margin:5px 10px; width:300px\" \/>in Akis magazine.\u00a0While in primary school Bilgehan mentioned she would make corrections on the magazines and couldn\u2019t forget the distinctive smell of printing houses in the 1960s. When Bilgehan was 13 she also wrote a travel piece titiled \u201cBe\u015f \u00c7ocuk, Be\u015f G\u00fcn Karadeniz\u201d for Milliyet newspaper. Following graduating from university Bilgehan returned to Turkey where she worked for Hurriyet newspaper under Erol Simavi and on R\u00fczgarl\u0131 Street for two years. Mentioning she met her husband during this period Bilgehan said \u201cHe was the son of opposition Justice Party member Cihat Bilgehan, but we fell in love and gote married in the chaotic atmosphere following the 1980 coup. There were people from CHP and True Path Party, people from all walks of life at the wedding\u201d.<br \/>\nDescribing the times she took care of her children the past years of her life Bilgehan was elected as a deputy for CHP in 2002. Reminding the audience her uncle Erdal in\u00f6n\u00fc and father had worked for the European Council too, Bilgehan remarked that she not only worked in the Anti-Discrimination and Equality Commission but also in the Culture and Media department.<br \/>\nBilgehan stated her father\u2019s magazine Akis would give place to all kinds of opinions and belifes and said \u201cOne day my father met \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc at the Pink Villa, his reason was to ask for his daughter\u2019s hand in marriage. He was about 30 years old&#8230; My grandfather \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc gives his blessing but says \u2018They\u2019re are going to bad things to you because of this. Indeed, my father spent two years in prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SULTAN YAVUZ- Implemented by the Association of Journalists and implemented by the European Union, the Media for Democracy\/Democracy for Media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-events","9":"post-with-thumbnail","10":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>G\u00fcls\u00fcn Bilgehan on \u201c\u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc\u201d - M4D Project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/media4democracy.org\/en\/gulsun-bilgehan-on-inonu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"tr_TR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"G\u00fcls\u00fcn Bilgehan on \u201c\u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc\u201d - 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