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BalkanPod Part #48 Topic: Ukraine War's Impact on the Western Balkans’ EU Path Broadcaster: Dilek KÜTÜK Guest: Florian Bieber, Coordinator @biepag and Director @cseesgraz Biography Professor Florian Bieber is a political scientist and director of the Center for South East European Studies at the University of Graz. He also coordinates the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (https://biepag.eu/)

Dilek Kütük bu hafta Mehmet Özkan ile "Türkiye’nin Balkanlardaki Kurumları ve Kurumsallaşma" konusunu ele alıyor. Keyifli Dinlemeler! Biyografi: Mehmet Özkan: Birçok kurumun kuruluşunda yer almış, Balkanlarda da dahil olmak üzere farklı bölge ve ülkelerde yöneticilik yapmış bir akademisyen. Şu an Maarif Vakfı Yönetim Kurulu’nda yer aldığı gibi Milli Savunma Üniversitesi’nde de dersler vermektedir.

BalkanPod'da bu hafta Dilek Kütük, Arda Mevlütoğlu ile "Türk Savunma Sanayi Açısından Balkanlarla İlişkiler" başlıklı program ile karşınızda. Keyifli Dinlemeler! Biyografi: Arda Mevlütoğlu: Savunma ve güvenlik politikaları, havacılık ve uzay teknolojileri ve silahlanma konularıyla ilgilenen bir araştırmacı.

War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo Broadcaster: Dilek KÜTÜK Guest: Jasminko Halilovic Biography Jasminko Halilovic is the founder and managing director of the War Childhood Museum. It’s the museum exclusively focused on the experience of childhood affected by war.  The mission of this museum is to document and digitize materials related to growing up in the war, and also to share the archived materials with various media channels in order to educate a broad audience about the experience of war. 

BalkanPod Part #44 Topic: Media in the Balkans: Crisis and Challenges Broadcaster: Dilek KÜTÜK Guest: Edhem Fočo, CEO of Al Jazeera Balkans ** Biography Edhem Fočo is the Director of Al Jazeera Network in Sarajevo. He is the founder of Al Jazeera Balkans

Topic: What is causing the political crisis in Bosnia? Guest: Eric Gordy, Professor at University College London. Enjoy Listening! Biography Eric Gordy is Professor of Political and Cultural Sociology at the University College London. His research concentrates on political culture, and social and cultural dynamics in the Balkans. His comments on the region have appeared in international (The New York Times, BBC etc) and local outlets. Eric Gordy’s Website

North Macedonia on the road to change? Guest: Zoran Nechev, Senior researcher Enjoy Listening! Biography Zoran Nechev is a Senior Researcher at Institute for Democracy Societas Civilis Skopje. He is a member of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) and a Europe’s Futures Fellow 2021/22 at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) in Vienna. Nechev is currently a PhD candidate at the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

BalkanPod #41 Montenegro strives for stability Guest: Jovana Marović, Vice President of the URA Enjoy Listening! Biography Jovana Marović is a Vice President of the United Reform Action (URA), a pro-European green political party in Montenegro.

 North Macedonia on the road to change? Guest: Ivana Jordanovska , Author at European Western Balkans Biography Ivana Jordanovska is currently an author at European Western Balkans website, a Fulbright Fellow at New York University, PhD at University of Southern California. Also she was a former adviser to Prime Minister Zoran Zaev of North Macedonia. Her Works: https://europeanwesternbalkans.com/author/ivana-jordanovska/

Prizren’s DokuFest Broadcaster: Dilek KÜTÜK Guest: Linda Llulla Gashi, Executive Director of @DokuFest

Demographic losers in the BalkansBroadcaster: Dilek KÜTÜK [@dilektk]Guest: Tim JUDAHBiographyMr.Judah covers the Balkans for The Economist and he is the president of the Board of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN). He is considered an authority on the Balkan politics. The Guardian and many other media outlets describes him as “a distinguished foreign correspondent”In recent years, he researched demography and depopulation in the Balkans. A series of articles has been published on Balkan Insight, the Economist and elsewhere.His latest works: BalkanInsight: https://balkaninsight.com/author/tim-judah/ The Economist: https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2020/11/17/emigration-and-low-birth-rates-are-affecting-the-balkan

BalkanPod'un bu haftaki konuğu Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Yurtdışı Türkler ve Akraba Topluluklar Başkanlığı Başkanı Abdullah Eren. Bu programda Türkiye'nin Yumuşak Gücü kapsamında kurum ele alınıyor. Keyifli Dinlemeler! Abdullah Eren: Aslen Batı Trakyalı olan Abdullah Eren, İstanbul doğumludur. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü'nden lisans; Londra-Westminster Üniversitesi Diplomasi Çalışmaları alanında da yüksek lisans derecesi almıştır. Özel sektörde çeşitli üst düzey görevler üstlenen Abdullah Eren, Başbakan Özel Kalem Müdür Yardımcısı ve Başbakan Müşaviri görevlerinin sonrasında Cumhurbaşkanı Başdanışmanlığı görevini yürütmüştür. Abdullah Eren, 27 Ekim 2018 tarihli Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kararı ile Yurtdışı Türkler ve Akraba Topluluklar Başkanlığı görevine atanmıştır. Sivil toplum faaliyetleriyle yakından ilgilenen Eren, Balkanlarla ilgili çalışmalar yürüten birçok sivil toplum örgütünde aktif görevler üstlenmiştir. Geleneksel Türk sporlarına da ilgi duyan Abdullah Eren, iyi derecede İngilizce bilmekte, evli ve 2 çocuk babasıdır.