Ahmet Vardar (1937 – 25 February 2010) was a notable Turkish
journalist
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and television presenter.
Biography
Vardar was born 1937 in
Istanbul
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. He worked for many newspapers, the longest for the daily ''
Sabah
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''. He served for many years as the general manager of ''Sabah'' News Agency. Vardar worked as a journalist for some fifty odd years. Though at first a sports reporter, and a legal correspondent, he later did work on the news management side at ''
Günaydın'', ''Tan'', ''
Zaman'', ''
Sabah
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'' and ''
Vatan
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''. He was well known for his hard work and honesty by most of the journalists in Turkey.
There were rumors that he would be going back to work for ''Sabah'' with his ''Alo Sabah'' column after the ''Sabah'' administration changed many times.
Career
He worked in several newspapers like ''Gunaydin'', ''Tan'', ''
Sabah
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'' and ''
Zaman''. In the 1990s, he made a television program called "''Ahmet Vardar Soruyor''" ( en, Ahmet Vardar Inquiring). He was a daily
columnist in the Turkish newspaper ''
Vatan
''Vatan'' ("Homeland" or "Motherland") is a Turkish daily newspaper
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Newspapers ...
'' until he wrote his last article dated 5 March 2006.
Vardar often yelled at people, who committed crimes. His famous quote is "patlatirim enseni", which means "I'm gonna blow your neck".
Levent Kırca
Zeki Levent Kırca (September 28, 1950 – October 12, 2015) was a Turkish comedian, stage and film actor, columnist of the newspaper '' Aydınlık'' and politician of the left-wing Patriotic Party ( tr, Vatan Partisi).
Kırca was born in Samsu ...
impersonated him very well in his comedy show ''Olacak O kadar''.
Death
Ahmet Vardar kept writing his column until he was diagnosed with
pancreatic cancer in November 2009, according to the ''
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'' news web site. He died on 25 February 2010 in a hospital in Istanbul at the age of 73.
Notes
External links
* Vatan daily newspaper
''Ahmet Vardar's column archive''
1937 births
2010 deaths
Deaths from cancer in Turkey
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Journalists from Istanbul
Sabah (newspaper) people
Turkish columnists
Turkish television presenters
Turkish sports journalists
Vatan people
Zaman (newspaper) people
Günaydın (newspaper) people
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