EMU Cinema-Television Department Hosts Aysu Basri Akter at Honour-High Honour Ceremony

Easten Mediterranean university Communication Faculty, Cinema-Television Department organised a honour-high honour certificate ceremony for successful students who demonstrated outstanding performance during the 2017-2018 Academic Year Spring Semester. Within the scope of the organisation, Bayrak Radio Television Corporation Director Aysu Basri Akter participated in the ceremony and shared with the participants her sectoral accumulation and experience at a talk she delivered.

Chair of Cinema-Television Department Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bahire Özad delivered the opening address of the ceremony which was attended by students, lecturers and instructors. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özad congratulated the successful students and expressed her department’s pleasure in hosting EMU Communication Faculty, Radio-Television Department former graduate Aysu Basri Akter. Delivering a talk at the event, Aysu Basri Akter expressed her happiness in participating in this meaningful organisation and stated that despite the fact that she is the institutional director of BRT, she worked in the private sector for a long period of time and that the sector has important shortcomings.

“We Failed in Terms of Training”

Highlighting the importance of the collaboration between academy and sector, Akter added that the problems in the field of media are due to various problems occuring in practice. Akter also stated that the effort to overcome the shortcomings in terms of practical applications in this field is not shown. Akter added that in terms of training, they are at point zero.

“In BRT, We are not Dominated by the State”

Akter expressed that he is a journalist and that there are a lot of difficulties in independent broadcasting. Akter also added that since she has started her duty in BRT, she has not been pressured by the government at all. Akter said, “We are very lucky in this respect, we broadcast freely, without any interventions”.

Following the talk, certificates of success were presented to honor-high honor students. The organisation ended after a group photo.