Some of the Guests We Have Hosted So Far
We have calculated that some 35,000 “guests” have been hosted at Açık Radyo over 28 years of broadcasting. Just for some “name-dropping”, here is a short list of individuals who have honored us by participating in our broadcasting endeavor:
From Noam Chomsky to Naomi Klein, James Hansen to Harvey Weiss, Bill McKibben to Chris Hedges, Richard Falk to Thomas Hammarberg, Amy Goodman to Robert Fisk, Arundhati Roy to Norman Finkelstein, Amira Hass to Mariam Saïd, Joseph Stiglitz to Yılmaz Akyüz, George Monbiot to Michael Albert, Hrant Dink to David Barsamian, Çağlar Keyder to Benjamin Barber, Matthew Lasar to Sharon Wood; Hasan Cemal to Murat Belge, Gürol Irzık to Serol Teber, Gilberto Gil to Tania Maria, Neşet Ertaş to Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Ara Güler to Harold Feinstein, Philippe Descola to Jacques Rancière, Muntadas to Ian Haydn Smith, Mike Stoller to Hal David, Füruzan to Adalet Ağaoğlu, Fredrick Jameson to Thomas Pogge, Vandana Shiva to Kumi Naidoo, Yaşar Kemal to Çetin Altan, Tuncel Kurtiz to Uğur Yücel, Ergun Özbudun to to Bakır Çağlar, Timothy Garton Ash to Şevket Pamuk, İbrahim Ferrer to Omara Portuondo, Gilbert Achcar to Samir Amin, Sue Mingus to Susana Baca, Ajda Pekkan to Nil Karaibrahimgil, Tarik Ali to José Bové, Uri Avnery to Daniel Amit, Burhan Doğançay to Mehmet Güleryüz, Orhan Pamuk to Vüs’at O. Bener, Mıgırdiç Margosyan to Cevat Çapan, Emine Behiye Karakitapoğlu'ndan Birsen Ulucan'a; Terry Eagleton to Slavoj Žižek, Aykut Barka to Ross Stein, Haluk Bilginer to Kenan Işık, Aykut Kocaman to Simon Kuper, Ornette Coleman to Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Arif Mardin to Ahmet Ertegün, Niyazi Sayın to Nevzat Atlığ, İnci Çayırlı to Münip Utandı, Kâzım Koyuncu to Bülent Ortaçgil, İdil Biret to Ayla Erduran, Susan Buck-Morss to Helena Norberg-Hodge, Franco “Bifo” Berardi to Michael Hardt, Amitav Gosh to Elisabeth Povinelli, John Zerzan to James Petras, Lester Brown to Maude Barlow, Wolfgang Sachs to Lisa Franzetta, Franny Armstrong to Annie Leonard, Terry Tempest Williams to Raj Patel, Joel Kovel to David Harvey, Johan Galtung to Bill Ayers, Mark Kurlansky to Thomas Blanton, Pierre Dardot to Christian Laval, Bertrand Tavernier to Fatih Akın, Thierry ‘Titi’ Robin to İnti İllimani, Charlie Haden to Toots Thielemans, from Ibrahim Maalouf to Sir Ian McKellen, Stefanos Yerasimos to John Berger, Eleni Karaindrou to Ross Daly, Semih Balcıoğlu to Piyale Madra, Martin Rowson to Aaron Sezar, Harun Tekin to Aylin Aslım, Esbjörn Svensson to “Muffy” Falay, Özdemir Erdoğan to Erol Büyükburç, Gülay Diri to Güzin Değişmez, Dave Clark to Peaches, Larry Coryell to Mike Stern...
… From the torturer to his victim, from HIV/AIDS patients to trans individuals, from the 3 year-old horse-rider to the 93 year-old musician, from the 8 year-old environmental activist to the 80 year-old movie projectionist, from a renowned chef to a relatively less well-known horse cart driver, from the autistic youngster to the experienced genetic scientist, from TESEV to MAZLUMDER, from KADER to KAMER, from Amnesty International to Greenpeace, from Adbusters to 350.org – on the average 3 guests a day everyday throughout all these years.
