Fehmi Koru
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Fehmi Koru is a Turkish columnist and journalist. He studied journalism and theology, receiving his master degree from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University. He also worked as a research affiliate at the Center for International Studies of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He was editor of the daily Milli Gazete (1984) and Zaman (1986-1987). He was also the chief editorial writer and Ankara Bureau Chief of Zaman until 1998. He has been with daily Yeni Safak since the beginning of 1999. He also wrote for Turkish Daily News (1998-2000).
He was an attendee at the 2006 Bilderberg meeting.
His journalistic work has been published in five books, all of them in Turkish. His article ‘Democracy and Islam: The Turkish Experiment’ came out in Sept/Oct 1996 issue of ‘Muslim Politics Report’ of Council on Foreign Relations. In a November 2006 column, he identified his U.S. diplomatic source at Mark Parris, a former ambassador to Turkey.
