EMU Communication Faculty Student Sertaç Özdemir Receives Aydın Doğan Foundation Award

Eastern Mediterranean University Communication Faculty Journalism Program student Sertaç Özdemir came the second in Aydın Doğan Foundation Young Communication Majors Competition.

The award ceremony of the Aydın Doğan Foundation’s Young Communication Majors Competition, which has the aim of contributing to the education of qualified media professionals, took place at Bahçeşehir University. A total of 1351 students, 1057 projects and 33 universities took part in the competition in printed, visual, auditory, advertising, public relations and internet publishing branches. Following various boards’ evaluations, 64 projects of 113 students from 19 universities qualified for the award.  

During his opening address at Aydın Doğan Foundation awards ceremony, chair of the foundation Hanzade Doğan Boyner stated that through the competition, communications students at different universities have a chance to get to know each other and demonstrate others how to put theory into practice. Following the opening adress, awards for the first three places were distributed.

It is worth mentioning that Eastern Mediterranean University Communication Faculty is the only faculty taking part in the competition from the TRNC. With his work entitled “Soma: We will Never Forget”, Sertaç Özdemir was awarded the second place. EMU Communication Faculty Vice Dean Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nurten Kara, Radio, Television, Cinema and Journalism Department academic staff member Assist. Prof. Dr. Metin Ersoy and Gündem Newspaper editor and research assistant  Ayça Atay accompanied Özdemir in the awards ceremony. Stating his happiness in receiving the award, Sertaç Özdemir put forth that the feeling of responsibility he had during the Soma Disaster search and rescue operation urged him to express his feelings through photography, script and graphics.

EMU Communication Faculty Dean Prof. Dr. Süleyman İrvan stated that Aydın Doğan Foundation Young Communication Majors Competition is considered as the Oscars of communication students. Congratulating Özdemir on his outstanding success, Prof. Dr. Süleyman İrvan expressed the faculty’s pride and happiness in bringing up students as such.  

Credit: EMU