Michael has extensive experience providing news and analysis for television and radio audiences. Here is a selection of recent appearances.
Kensington under a cloud of cigarette smoke
Ahead of the Turkish parliamentary election on Sunday 7 June
Turkish-speaking voters in the race to win Enfield North
Michael Daventry discusses the role of the Turkish-speaking electorate in
Erdoğan’s election victory
Voters in Turkey have been reacting to Prime Minister Recep
After the presidential election
Michael joins a panel discussion hosted in London by the
Panel on Turkish presidential elections
Presidential elections take place in Turkey on Sunday and, for the first time, voters have been able to cast ballots outside the country, including in London.
The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is standing for President and has strong domestic support. But there is more at stake than which candidate will win. If Erdogan takes the presidency he will make it a much more powerful post. If he loses it will remain a more ceremonial position.
Erdogan’s rule is controversial both at home where the Gezi Park protests mobilised many thousands and among the Turkish diaspora where an estimated 50,000 turned out in protest at his rule in Cologne last weekend.
Joining John Rees in the studio are Michael Sercan Daventry, English Section Editor of the Londra Gazete; Hakan Camuz, chairman of MUSIAD UK, Turkey’s Independent Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association; and Güney Yıldız, a journalist from the BBC World Service. And by phone link is Fadi Hakura, an Associate Fellow from the think tank Chatham House.
Gezi Park
As Turkey is rocked by nationwide anti-government protests triggered by
Armenian memorial in Wales
On Saturday 3 November 2007, Britain’s Armenian community unveiled a