Director COSKUN ARAL:

Coskun Aral was born in 1956 in Siirt. He is an international war photographer, explorer, traveler, documentary producer. His program titled “Haberci” was broadcasted on the ATV channel. The program’s later episodes were broadcasted on NTV and ShowTV, which was followed by it’s broadcast on TRT with a new title “Turkiye Renkleri”. He is the founder of IZ TV, the first Turkish documentary channel. In 1983, his photography album titled “Peace in Galilee” which he prepared together with four war photographers including National Geographic’s reknown photographer Reza and Yan Morvan, was published by Edition de Minuit. He was also among the 131 best war photographers of the world in the New York Pantheon Publishing House’s book, the War Torn. His adventure photography album, “Turkey: The Big Adventure of A Thousand Miles”, was published in 1988. In 1995, his two books, “War the Dangerous Light” and “World’s Most Dangerous Places” were published in the United States by the Fielding Worldwide Publishing House.