Altan Erdogan (born 29 June 1967, in

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) is a Dutch

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. He is the former editor of the

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weekly

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''.

Life and career

Erdogan was born to a

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father and a

mother. After his journalism studies at the School of Journalism in

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, he worked as a reporter and editor for the '' Haarlem Dagblad'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. From 2002 he was managing editor and deputy of ''Times Magazine''. In December 2007 he was the first foreign editor of a national magazine in the Netherlands. In the years 2007-2010 Erdogan served as editor-in-chief of ''

''. He changed the name to ''Revu'' but his successor, Frans Loman, changed it right back. In the Erdogan years the circulation of ''Nieuwe Revu'' dropped from 64,360 to 46,619 (by 28%), but this was not different from the previous and subsequent years. Subsequent to ''Nieuwe Revu'', Erdogan worked for the Dutch broadcasters

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and

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. From 2015 to 2021 he edited ''Folia'', the free student and staff magazine of the

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. After his stint with the student newspaper he was announced as the editor in chief for the Amsterdam television station

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. He started in October 2021.

References

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