Ahmet Vardar (1937 – 25 February 2010) was a notable Turkish

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and television presenter.

Biography

Vardar was born 1937 in

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. He worked for many newspapers, the longest for the daily ''

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''. He served for many years as the general manager of ''Sabah'' News Agency. Vardar worked as a journalist for some fifty odd years. Though at first a sports reporter, and a legal correspondent, he later did work on the news management side at ''

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'', ''Tan'', '' Zaman'', ''

'' and ''

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''. He was well known for his hard work and honesty by most of the journalists in Turkey. There were rumors that he would be going back to work for ''Sabah'' with his ''Alo Sabah'' column after the ''Sabah'' administration changed many times.

Career

He worked in several newspapers like ''Gunaydin'', ''Tan'', ''

'' and '' Zaman''. In the 1990s, he made a television program called "''Ahmet Vardar Soruyor''" (). He was a daily

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in the Turkish newspaper ''

'' until he wrote his last article dated 5 March 2006. Vardar often yelled at people, who committed crimes. His famous quote is "patlatirim enseni", which means "I'm gonna blow your neck".

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impersonated him very well in his comedy show ''Olacak O kadar''.

Death

Ahmet Vardar kept writing his column until he was diagnosed with

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in November 2009, according to the ''

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'' news web site. He died on 25 February 2010 in a hospital in Istanbul at the age of 73.

Notes

External links

* Vatan daily newspaper
''Ahmet Vardar's column archive''
1937 births 2010 deaths Deaths from pancreatic cancer in Turkey Journalists from Istanbul Sabah (newspaper) people Turkish columnists Turkish television presenters Turkish sports journalists Vatan (2002 newspaper) people Zaman (newspaper) people Günaydın (newspaper) people {{Turkey-tv-bio-stub