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Taha Akyol

Taha Akyol is a Turkish journalist and writer of Abkhazian descent. Akyol worked as a journalist at the ''Yankı'' news magazine, and the ''Tercüman'', ''Meydan'' and ''Milliyet'' dailies. After the 1980s, he distanced himself from Turkish nationalism, turning toward conservative liberalism. While being a true classical liberal, both in political and economic terms, he takes a rightist-conservative approach to culture and foreign policy. Akyol is a member of the Board of Trustees at TOBB University of Economics and Technology. He is a producer at CNN Türk and was a columnist for the ''Hürriyet'' daily until its new, Erdogan-allied owners fired him in September 2018.

Akyol is married and a father of two. He is the father of Turkish journalist and writer Mustafa Akyol. Provided by Wikipedia