{"id":4694,"date":"2020-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media4democracy.org\/en\/taner-dedeoglu-interview-techniques-workshop\/"},"modified":"2020-02-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T00:00:00","slug":"taner-dedeoglu-interview-techniques-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media4democracy.org\/en\/taner-dedeoglu-interview-techniques-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Taner Dedeo\u011flu- Interview Techniques Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

SULTAN YAVUZ- <\/strong>Implemented by the Association of Journalists and funded by the European Union, \u201cMedia for Democracy\/Democracy for Media\u201d (M4D) Project hosted Tanter Dedo\u011flu at the Press House. In his presentation titled \u201cInterview Techniques\u201d Dedeo\u011flu talked about the intricacies of how to interview while citing his recently published book \u201c\u015eimdi Onlar Man\u015fet\u201d (Now They\u2019re Making Headlines). Before Dedeo\u011flu\u2019s presentation, Association of Journalists Chairman Nazmi Bilgin remarked that this book is very important to him, and remarked:
\n\"\"\u201cIt was a difficult time for 24 Saat newspaper, we were struggling to publish announcements. They told [sic] we should publish special news, interviews etc, and we were told we didn\u2019t have enough columnists. Those days, thankfully, we talked with Taner Dedeo\u011fl\u0131 and wanted to create a book documenting interviews with leading figures in journalism. I believe Dedeo\u011flu was the best person for the job, as you all well know. He has done some exceptional work in the past, worked for big newspapers and is a respected name in journalistic circles… He can be a bit grumpy but I turst that\u2019s due to his professional experience and integrity. We\u2019ve come to accept him as such and love him for it.
\nExperience is very important, but it\u2019s only valid if it\u2019s shared. You need to share your experiences, no matter who you are, famous or not… It\u2019s easy being famous but what\u2019s important in journalism is being trustworthy. I\u2019ve met quite a few famous people, some long forgotten. The late football player Metin Oktay was a good friend of mine, alongside football he was also a man of philosophy. One day we were chatting at the Ankara Hotel, he said \u2018Nazmi, do you know what the three most difficult things to carry are? Fame, money and a gun. You could carry a gun for 20 years and nothing would happen but one day it could change everything.\u00a0Money is the same, you work for it, end up swimming in it but you make one mistake and it\u2019s all gone. Fame… everyone could love you but make one big mistake and it\u2019s over. That\u2019s why it\u2019s difficult to carry fame\u2019.
\nTaner Dedeo\u011flu, having worked for so many years preserves his fame through beautiful works such as his new book. I had the opportunity to read it both before and after it was printed. He not only shared his experience and successes in interviews with us, but he has left an important mark on our near political history. I\u2019ve read the book many times and found something new in its each time. Dedeo\u011flu could have said \u2018I\u2019ve done my job, I\u2019m retired and now I can enjoy myself\u2019 but he worked on his book for years.
\nWe sometimes do not appreciate these things enough. It is important to appreciate people while they\u2019re alive, we need more appreciation. I hope Taner sees that I\u2019m complimenting him, I\u2019d like to thank him very much for what the interviews he has done in his field and for providing the Association of Journalists with such a wonderful book.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dedeo\u011flu \u201cThen the 28 February incident happened\u201d<\/strong>
\nProviding the audience with biographical information about Dedeo\u011flu, M4D Project Assistant Director Seva \u00dclman said \u201cOur guest Taner Dedeo\u011flu has conducted hundreds of interviews, and believe me he has done a great job in doing so\u201d. \u00dclman remarked that in addition to technical knowledge, being able to\"\" properly to get to know the person you are interviewing is very important in interviews and Dedeo\u011flu hask peaked in this skill over the years.
\nStarting his presentation by talking about his professional life Dedeo\u011flu said he was born in in Nev\u015fehir in 1949, nine months prior to the transition to the multi-party system. When at primary school in Nev\u015fehir, just before entering the end of school exams his teacher told him and his fellow students \u201cGo home, do not leave your homes\u201d -the date was 27 May 1960, a military coup had happened. Later, Dedeo\u011flu attended Ankara University where there were mass protests, the army had taken over by issuing a letter, Dedeo\u011flu said \u201cthe coup of 12 March 1971… That\u2019s when I started the profession. I must commemorate the late Asaf U\u00e7ar… Orhan Tokatl\u0131 had told him there were high ranking military officials at TRT and told him to take pictures of them, but when U\u00e7ar arrived at the premises he was not allowed into the general manager\u2019s office. Then, U\u00e7ar saw the military caps of the Black Sea Air-force\u00a0 and Commandership of Gendarmerie sitting on the table of the private secretary; he took pictures of them and sent them in to the paper. When I first started working I asked Asaf \u2018So how did <\/em>you take the picture?\u2019 he replied \u2018I just did\u2019.\u201d
\nDedeo\u011flu told the audience he worked for Milliyet newspaper, then Hey magazine, Hurriyet Newspaper, 7 G\u00fcn magazine; he also remarked that he experienced the 12 September 1980 coup as a journalist. Dedeo\u011flu later worked for Millyet newspaper\u2019s supplement \u201cRenk\u201d where he started doing interviews, but when his contract had expired he decided to retire on the account of his wife\u2019s foreign mission. Dedeo\u011flu said:
\n\u201cI sent in my petition for retirement, they started the process and then suddenly 28 February incidents happened, the Turkish army sent its tanks through the streets of Sincan. So, looking back I can say that my career started with a coup and ended with one. When I returned from abroad I started a magazine for the Foreign Trade Foundation. I continued interviewing for the Ankara Chamber of Industry ASO Medya magazine. In 2009, with the kind invitation of Mr. Chairman and late Vice Chairman Kemal Karacehennem I found myself instated in this position.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interviews with Gazanfer Kunt and C\u00fcneyt Arcay\u00fcrek<\/strong>
\nDedeo\u011flu drew attention to the Latin roots of the word \u201cinterview\u201d and remarked that how its meaning encompasses many things such as things or someone that grabs our attention, a place, incident, or artwork; while news articles are short and objective, in interviews a subject is approached from many different perspectives giving place to the interviewer\u2019s own interpretation and commentary. Explaining that interviews are generally held and the house of the person being interviewed, Dedeo\u011flu said \u201cthis is because the person may show you documents, or such things as photographs\u201d. Underlining the importance of preparing for the interview, Dedeo\u011flu remarked that it is important to pay attention to dress appropriately and the rules of societal life are also important in interviews. Emphasizing the importance of arriving on time for the interview Dedelo\u011flu gave the example of his interview with C\u00fcneyt Arcay\u00fcrek. Dedeo\u011flu said:
\n\u201cWhen we first started out this endeavour with the late Kemal Karacehennem, the first name they gave us was Gazanfer Kunt, whom I did not know at the time. Kunt, decided to move to Bodrum in 1960 from Ankara where he was the owner of a newspaper; after travelling around the coast he finally decided to settle down in Torba and built his first house there. He was 90 years old when I interviewed him, he showed me pictures of C\u00fcnyet Arcay\u00fcrek from 1951. While I was \"\"scanning that photo in Ankara, I made an extra copy because I wanted to interview C\u00fcneyt Arcay\u00fcrek. C\u00fcnyet Arcay\u00fcrek would speak in a loud voice, he was quite temperamental, we worked together in H\u00fcrriyet and Milliyet but you could expect anything from him at any time.
\nSo, I took the photograph with me to Cumhuriyet newspaper\u2019s Ankara bureau; the secretary told me I could leave the picture there but I waited for his in case he had any questions. Half an hour later the secretary came back with the picture and I heard a booming voice shout \u2018Who?\u00a0 What? What did they want?\u2019 so I slid through the half-open door. I told him about everything, I had already left a note with the secretary and it had been quite some time. When Mr. Chairman bumped into Arcay\u00fcrek on 29 October 2009 he told him \u2018Let\u2019s do an interview, we\u2019re making book\u2019. So, Mr. Chairman had decided upon the subject when I did my first interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n

10 years went by, it became a book…<\/strong>
\nA while later I bumped into him with his wife at Panora. After saying hello, he said \u2018call my secretary tomorrow\u2019, I did and set off for his house. If I\u2019m going somewhere, I don\u2019t know, I arrive there 20 minutes before I need to be there, and 5 minutes before if I know where I\u2019m going. Just as I pressed the doorbell, I got a call, it was the secretary saying that Mr. Arcay\u00fcrek wanted to do the interview another time but through the intercom I said \u2018Mr. Arcay\u00fcrek, it\u2019s me\u2019 and he buzzed me in. So, you see it\u2019s quite important to be there on time; if I had said \u2018oh, I\u2019m just on Turan G\u00fcne\u015f boulevard\u2019 the interview would never have happened.\u201d
\nPoliteness and the example of Mete Akyol<\/strong>
\nDedeo\u011flu stated that interview questions must be short and precise, they should not be interrogative, but must be polite and seek out knowledge. Dedeo\u011flu shared a memory of Mete Akyol, a master of the art of the interview:
\n\u201cThe \u00d6zal family were in bit of a predicament. Their children seemed to have been involved in everything. When \u00d6zal died, a journalist uncovered \u00d6zal\u2019s daughter Zeynep \u00d6zal\u2019s bank statements in Switzerland, this caused havoc. Mete Akyol and Reha Muhtar were requested to interview the family. Mete Akyol said it would only be him conducting the interview, everybody was very excited but the public was furious with Mete Akyol afterwards. He regretted it, but he was polite as he ever was; just wanted to get more information. The public, though, really wanted to get at him. That is why there was a lot of criticism such as \u2018you were too polite\u2019. When you are conducting an interview, it is really unnecessary to be rude and impolite.\u201d
\nMasters of the interview<\/strong>
\nDedeo\u011flu said it is important to give a brief overview of the topic in the first person when writing the interview. Interviews that are supported with visual material can be considered in terms of a documentary according to Dedeo\u011flu:
\n\u201cInterview techniques have changed in the last 30 years. Where are the introductions? What about telling the story? Ay\u015fe Arman made it popular to just use quotations, we on the other hand actually turn it into a story.\u201d
\nRemarking that interviews began in the 1950s and that there are many masters of the art, Dedeo\u011flu said: \u201cHikmet Feridun wrote about his experiences in Korea where he went with the Turkish army and turned his journals into a serial supported by photographs. Ya\u015far Kemal, Fikret Otyam, Mete Akyol and E\u015fref Kemal are other important names.\u201d
\nWhite \u201cdoner\u201d<\/strong>
\nIn addition to telling the audience about his memories of the interviews he conducted Dedeo\u011flu also mentioned his experiences in the \u201cRenk\u201d supplement paper. He said:
\n\u201cIt was 1985, we were about to eat lunch at Sakarya. There were doner kebab shops with red meat on the skewers, but there was this one shop that had white meat on it. We asked \u2018what\u2019s this?\u2019 and the chef said \u201cchicken doner\u201d. I told him I\u2019d be back in a couple of hours, I grabbed my camera and came back. \u201cK\u00f6\u015fem Piknik\u201d that was \u0130rfan Usta… He had prepared some chicken doner since red meat had become expensive and chicken production began to increase. He first tried using the skin, then something else… When I did this interview Milliyet newspaper sold 230 thousand copies and nobody came out and said \u2018I sell chicken doner too\u2019.
\nI time a did a news piece about the former dean of Hacettepe University Faculty of Pharmacy; the dean had used the wooden furniture of a closed-down pharmacy shop and put it exactly in the entrence of the faculty. The news article was a hit, but then someone from Istanbul called and said \u2018we\u2019re here trying to save people, doing bone marrow transplants and instead of reporting about that you report about nonsense like this\u2019. So I said \u2018ok\u2019 and went there. Really, I did a piece called \u2018What\u2019s happening in the health sector?\u2019. This time Ege University called, they said they opened a new department in this field, a reporter friend from \u0130zmir did that article. You see, it wasn\u2019t like the chicken doner business…\u201d<\/p>\n

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