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WILL BE AWARDED IPEKCI PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP AWARD FOR COMMUNICATION Washington, D.C., April 4, 2001 -- Voice of America (VOA) Greek Service Chief George Bistis and VOA Turkish Service Chief Taclan Suerdem have been chosen by the Committee for the Ipekci Peace and Friendship Prize to receive the 2000-2001 Ipekci Peace and Friendship Prize for Communication "for their multifaceted and sincere co-operation in support of the Greek-Turkish rapprochement on an international level." Suerdem and Bistis will receive the prestigious award, established and presented under the auspices of the United Nations, during a ceremony in Istanbul on May 3, 2001. The award is presented in recognition of the VOA cross-Aegean electronic dialogues they conducted with affiliate stations in both countries during the year 2000, and for the impact that these radio bridges had on the rapprochement between the peoples of Greece and Turkey. They are further recognized for co-hosting the May 2000 VOA Multimedia Conference "Greek-Turkish Rapprochement and its Effect on Efforts for Regional Peace and Stability," which was carried on radio, TV, and the Internet. The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Greece and Turkey, George Papandreou and Ismail Cem respectively, participated in the program through addresses at the conference. Bistis and Suerdem received an Ipekci Recognition Award in November 1999 for a series of conflict resolution reports and interviews. The Ipekci Peace and Friendship Prize was established 22 years ago, under the auspices of the United Nations, by a Greek citizen, Andreas Politakis, in memory of Abdi Ipekci, the editor of the Turkish daily Milliyet, who was slain in his country while pursuing rapprochement with Greece. Milliyet and Athens daily Eleftherotypia have been the driving forces behind establishing and preserving the award. The Ipekci Peace and Friendship Prize is presented every two years, on a rotational basis in Athens and Istanbul. The Voice of America
is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. Government.
VOA broadcasts over 900 hours of news, informational, educational, and
cultural programming every week to an audience of some 91 million worldwide.
Programs are produced and broadcast in English and 52 other languages.
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