Anadolu's CEO Hails Close Collaboration Of Turkic News Agencies

Türkiye's global news agency Anadolu's President & CEO Serdar Karagoz on Monday lauded close and brotherly relations between Turkic countries, as five of their news agencies moved to form an association to increase collaboration.

Karagoz underlined the importance of linguistic commonalities among Turkic nations during a meeting of senior officials from five countries' news agencies, saying "We believe in the integrative power of Turkic languages."

Türkiye's Communications Director Fahrettin Altun, and Chairman of the Aksakallar Council of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) Binali Yildirim also attended the meeting hosted by Anadolu, in which the Association of Turkic News Agencies (ATNA) was officially formed.

The association will also help combat misinformation, Karagoz said.

"Whenever a piece of news emerges from within the Turkic world, those five news agencies will act together to determine the reliability of it and will prevent the dissemination of a false one and manipulation efforts through this cooperation mechanism," he said, referring to the newly-formed ATNA.

"Manipulation and disinformation are two of the biggest risks in today's world," Karagoz said, adding that "fact-checking mechanisms are getting more important by the day."

"The main purpose of news agencies is to inform the public in the most accurate way," he said, adding that the ATNA will focus on ways to increase the reliability of its member agencies.

Karagoz said Anadolu is "excited to cooperate with news agencies from the Turkic world that would also bring together Turkic nations even closer owing to their common history."

"We have to display a determined stance against international media's biased approach," he said, also reminding President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's goal of "achieving a Turkic world that plays a big role in the solution to global crises."

He asserted "I believe that we will contribute to the president's goal with this association."

"Every step that we take in this platform is important so that our voice is heard and our influence grows," he said.

"We will increase the level of cooperation between the institutions in the Turkic world and the potential of the Turkic world to adhere to a common approach," he vowed.

"We are witnessing history being made here. The association that we are forming here will play a big role in building the joint approach, idea, and excitement of the Turkic world," Karagoz concluded.

Earlier, Anadolu President & CEO Serdar Karagoz, Azerbaijan State News Agency (AZERTAC) Board Chairman Vugar Aliyev, Kyrgyz National News Agency (Kabar) Director-General Mederbek Shermetaliev, Kazakh news agency Qazcontent's Board Chairman Bekzat Zhussupov, Uzbekistan National News Agency (UZA) Director-General Abdisait Kuchimov signed document to official form the joint media platform ATNA. -