Harun Kaban
Ankara, Turkey
Harun Kaban is a blogger based in Turkey and Georgia.
He is working for Association for Liberal Thinking (in short ALT, is an NGO located in Ankara, Turkey) as Media Affairs Coordinator.
He is General Director of Liberal Dusunce (in English Liberal Thought is a quarterly journal, published in Turkey) and HurFikirler.com (is an op-ed website in Turkish and English).
He is running his own blog and also blogging at HurFikirler.com. His articles are occasionally published on Turkish daily newspapers such as Zaman, Taraf and Yeni Şafak.
He has worked for NES-G (located in Tbilisi, Georgia) as a researcher focusing on development of economic relationships between Turkey and Georgia.
He worked for ALT for three years as a program asistant and one year as a representive of ALT in Istanbul Office. Also he has worked for Liberte Publications as an editor for two years.
He has a book which is named as “On a city… Kangal”. It is about his hometown, a district of Sivas (a city central part of Turkey). Moreover he directed a short documantary which had the same name as book.
He produced a documentary in December 2012.