Mithat Bereket

Mithat Bereket has been working as a reporter for 18 years as well as producing and narrating his own television news program, PUSULA – “the Compass” since 1995. PUSULA which is broadcast on CNN Turk, is a bi-weekly news program on foreign policy issues. Mr. Bereket is also preparing a daily primetime news program, +Bir, (“Plus One”) a daily prime time news program, and is the host of PUSULA, (“The Compass”).

During his 18 years of experience as a TV journalist, Mithat Bereket has also taken part in the coverage of a number of major events as the main anchorman for Turkish news channel NTV. These events include President Bill Clinton’s visit to Turkey, the OSCE Summit in Istanbul, the Helsinki Summit of the European Union, general elections in Greece, the elections in Cyprus, the elections in the U.S. and the World Trade Center attacks in New York.

Mr. Bereket, as a roving reporter and war correspondent, travels intensively around the world for major news stories. He followed the Gulf War, the war in Bosnia, the Afghan War, the tensions in Algeria, the conflict in Karabagh, the war in Chechnya, the Palestinian Intifada and the NATO Operation in Kosovo. Bereket has held several exclusive interviews with leaders, politicians, opinion-makers and other prominent public figures including: Nelson Mandela, Benazir Butto, Bill Clinton, Muammar Al Gaddafi, Yasser Arafat, B.Bouthros Gali, Masud Barzani, Yitzak Rabin, Madeleine Albright, Brent Scowcroft, Binyamin Netanyahu, Mikhail Kalashnikov, King Abdallah of Jordan, Walid Jumblatt and Mohamed el Baradei.

Mithat Bereket graduated from the University of Ankara with a degree in International Relations. He played basketball professionally both at the College Basketball Team and then later for the Turkish National Team. He got his M.A. from Lancaster University, Department of International Relations, in England. His master’s dissertation was on Cyprus. He is still a Ph.D. student in the same university doing a research on Fundamentalist Islam.

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Super Tuesday

Interview with Amy Holmes, Republican strategist and frequent analyst for CNN and Fox News, and Jeffrey Plaut, a partner at the Global Strategy Group whose clients have included John Edwards and Elliot Spitzer, at Times Square’s famous Sardi’s restaurant to discuss the results of Super Tuesday's historic primaries.
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Interview with David Mark

Interview with David Mark, senior editor at The Politico and author of “Going Dirty: The Art of Negative Campaigning.”
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Intelligence Series

The Turkish military's incursion into northern Iraq to counter the PKK terrorist organization has long been at the forefront of Turkey's news. The latest military operations have been based on "real time intelligence" provided by the United States, which allows the Turkish military to more accurately locate and target PKK hideouts and movement. To find out more about the types of intelligence the US may be providing to the Turkish military, Mithat Bereket interviewed top experts in the field, ranging from providers of commercial satellite intelligence, to the Israeli manufacturer of Unarmed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), to the former director of the CIA.

Interview with Mark Brender and Matthew O'Connell of GeoEye
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Interview with James Lewis, a senior fellow at CSIS who directs its Technology and Public Policy Program.
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Interview with John McLaughlin, Senior Research Fellow of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins University and former director of the CIA.
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Interview with Uzzi Rozzen, President of IAI International, the US subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries.
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