- WHO WE ARE

Ferhat Boratav (b.1959, Istanbul) is a television journalist and information communication specialist.

He graduated from Istanbul Erkek Lisesi and Boğaziçi University, Department of History. He studied the Turkish migration experience at the Université de Grenoble-II in France.

He started his journalism career in 1985 at the weekly news magazine Nokta. In 1987, he joined the BBC World Service Turkish Department as a producer and presenter. He returned to Turkey in 1992 and became the News Director of ATV.

In 1999, he joined CNN Türk as Editor-in-Chief, a position he held until 2019. At CNN Türk, he was responsible for editorial content and decisions, special broadcasts, especially elections, program development, talent development, operational budget, corporate communication projects and editorial relations with CNN International.

In 2012, he took a leading role in the development of Doğan Media Group’s editorial principles and wrote the Editorial Principles for the group’s TV channels.

He has been lecturing on television journalism, global journalism and copywriting for nearly 20 years and continues to organize training workshops with local media organizations. A member of the Advisory Board of the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship based at the University of Michigan, he organized Knight-Wallace fellows’ journalists’ trips to Turkey between 2005 and 2015.

He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Open Society Foundation of Turkey for over ten years until its closure in 2019, advising numerous social and cultural projects.

He is among the founders and directors of the “Yanındayız Association”, which aims to mobilize men for gender equality and the “Friends of Aşıklı”, which was established to support archaeological research and cultural heritage works. He is a trustee and board member of the Foundation for the Development of Cultural Awareness.

He is fluent in English and reads French and German. He writes on X at @ferhatboratav.

Nazan MOROĞLU

Born in 1947 in Istanbul, she studied at the German High School and Istanbul University Faculty of Law. She completed her master’s degree in Women’s Law at Istanbul University. Her master’s thesis on “Women’s Surname”, the first academic study in this field, was published in 1998.

Moroğlu is Turkey’s first expert on Women’s Law and teaches the course “Women’s Human Rights Law”. (2002-2014 Yeditepe University Faculty of Law; 2014 -… MEF University Faculty of Law).

Moroğlu is one of the founders of İ.Ü. Law Faculty Education Foundation, where she is a member of the Board of Directors, and the German Liseliler Culture and Education Foundation (ALKEV).

She is a founding member of the European Women Lawyers Association (EWLA). She is the founding president of TUBAKKOM – Women Law Commission of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations.

She was the legal advisor of the “End Domestic Violence” campaig, a joint project of Hürriyet Newspaper, ÇEV Foundation and the Governor of Istanbul.

Moroğlu is the Vice President of the Istanbul Bar Association (2018-2022 period), Coordinator of the Istanbul Women’s Organizations Union (2004-2024 period), Board Member of the Family Planning Foundation of Turkey (2014-2024 period), Board Member of the Nazım Hikmet Foundation, Board Member of the Secular and Scientific Education Platform- LABEP, Advisory Board Member of the Yanındadayız Association, and Vice President of the Lawyers Foundation.