AA's newly appointed Director General Ozturk congratulated by the foreign news agencies

ANKARA (A.A) - August 9, 2011 - Italian, Iranian, Thai, Qatar, Mauritanian and Greek Cypriot news agencies congratulated Kemal Ozturk on Tuesday on his appointment as the new director general and head of Executive Board of Anadolu Agency (AA).
Director generals of the Italian News Agency (ANSA), Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), other news agencies sent congratulatory messages to Kemal Ozturk.
ANSA's director general Giuseppe Cerbone said that he hoped that deep-rooted relations and sound cooperation between AA and ANSA would improve in the following period.
IRNA's director general Ali Akbar Javanfekr said that they expected that great cooperation between AA and IRNA would be boosted.
Last Wednesday, Kemal Ozturk took over the position from his predecessor, Hilmi Bengi. 
Kemal Ozturk was born in eastern province of Agri in 1969. Ozturk graduated from Faculty of Communications at Marmara University.
Ozturk began his professional journalism career in 1995 and directed several documentaries. His documentary films were broadcast in several Turkish and foreign TV channels. Ozturk also studied abroad and made researches on documentary.
In 2003, Ozturk became communication adviser of the parliament speaker. In 2005, he was appointed as chief advisor of the parliament speaker. Ozturk who also served as press advisor of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan left this position in February 2011.
Ozturk is married with two children.