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Memet Aksakal



Freelance Investigative Journalist, Fixer, Researcher



Email: aksamemet@gmail.com




Memet Aksakal





Freelance Investigative Journalist, Fixer, Researcher



I have been working as a freelance journalist fixer, researcher, coordinator in Turkey, Syria and Iraq.since 1999. I have been working for documentary films and news for almost all of major TV channels and many production companies from USA, Canada, western Europe, Asia and Australia, such as BBC, ITN, Channel 4, PBS, HBO, History Channel, Arte, ARD, Discovery channel, National Geographic and many other TV channels from different countries.

10 5 If you are planning to film a documentary film in Turkey and think that you may need help, I can work with you as a fixer and translator and get permissions for you, arrange locations, transportation and anything else need to be done.

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Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any question.

Email: aksamemet@gmail.com



Below is the list of the documentary films I worked for.



Globe Trekker Tough Trucks 2018



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8949690/



http://www.pilotguides.com/tv-shows/tough-trucks/tough-trucks-turkey/

Tough Trucks of Turkey

For thousands of years Turkey has been at the heart of ancient trade routes linking China and Europe that have brought silk, exotic spices, new cultures and ideas through Turkey – to the west and beyond. Trade on the Silk Road played a significant role in the development of civilisations, opening long distance political and economic relations between them. Today these routes still exist, on a larger scale and are carrying more than silk, spices and new ideas



From Zero to Elbrus 2016



https://www.nicovalsesia.com/from-zero-to-elbrus/



A sport travel documentary, travel from Istanbul to Georgian border via, Ankara, Aksaray, Hasandagi,Goreme, cappadocia, Kayseri. Malatya, Adiyaman, Erzurum, Artvin, Kackar mountain, Rize



Carol Klein's Plant Odysseys, Tulips
(BBC 2015)



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4908908/



Gardening expert Carol Klein takes us on an exploration of the inner secrets and botanical history of four of Britain's most popular plants.Filmed in Istanbul and Van city in eastern Turkey.



Byzantium a Tale of Three Cities ( BBC 2013)



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3573194/



Simon Sebag Montefiore uncovers the three identities of the City some call the Centre of the World. Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul. This one metropolis has been the capital city of three empires - Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman. Each brought its own faiths, Gods and traditions, and each left its mark on the city in its architecture, traditions and in the living faith-communities who still populate this vast modern metropolis of 14 million people.



Planet Schule: Göbekli Tepe - Der älteste Tempel der Menschheit



https://programm.ard.de/TV/Programm/Sender/?sendung=2811110974473908



WDR Fernsehen 1994 stößt der deutsche Archäologe Klaus Schmidt auf einer kahlen Hügelkuppe im Südosten der Türkei auf eine monumentale Anlage aus über fünf Meter hohen Steinkreisen. Die Pfeiler sind noch dazu sehr gut erhalten und mit Reliefs reich verziert. Wer hat sie gebaut, welche Bedeutung haben die Skulpturen und Reliefs und die wichtigste Frage: Wie alt ist diese Kultstätte? Sehr schnell wird klar, dass die Steinkreise sehr viel älter sind, als man bisher für möglich gehalten hätte. Die Experten können das Alter der Anlage unter anderem aus der Form von Steinwerkzeugen schließen, die sie in ihren untersten Erdschichten finden.



New BBC Four series to explore the impact of women on the Roman world



https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/roman-world



BBC Four has commissioned a new three-part history series, Mothers, Murderers And Mistresses: Empresses Of Ancient Rome, telling the dramatic story of how exceptional women came to stand at the epicentre of imperial power. Commissioned by Martin Davidson, Commissioning Editor, History and Business, and Richard Klein, former Controller, BBC Four, Mothers, Murderers And Mistresses: Empresses Of Ancient Rome begins on Wednesday 29 May at 9pm. It is made by HotSauce TV for the BBC.



uygurs live in istanbul



https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeraworld/2014/07/uighurs-external-exile-20147793124666940.html



This film, which first debuted on the Al Jazeera Documentary channel in early 2014, follows the story of the Uighur people of the former East Turkestan, occupied by China in 1949, and renamed Xinjiang province.



La Valse des Continents (2014)



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3696480/



https://boutique.arte.tv/detail/la_valse_des_continents


Volcans, séismes, tsunamis, histoire des continents et des océans. La Valse des Continents est une série spectaculaire sur la fabuleuse histoire de la planète Terre. Qui sait que la Scandinavie était jadis dans l'hémisphère sud ? Que l'on trouve dans les Ardennes des récifs coralliens dignes des Bahamas ? Ou que le plus grand océan du monde, le Pacifique est en voie de disparition ?

Directed by Alexis De Favitski



museum secrets



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1830154/



Museum Secrets is a TV series on History Television in Canada and a website with videos and games exploring the world's renowned museums and their most enigmatic objects. Narrated by Canadian actor Colm Feore, the TV series is now in production for a third season. Museum Secrets is produced by Kensington Communications Inc. The Royal Ontario Museum held a special exhibit during the winter of 2011, featuring objects from the Museum Secrets series. Several Canadian newspapers previewed the exhibit: National Post, Toronto Sun, Torontoist and Toronto Star.


Sex Scandals in Religion



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1910251



One of the 4 Episodes filmed in November 2011 in Turkey in Nigde, Kayseri Producer: Canada Broadcasting Corporation

Broadcaster: Vision TV Canada

Director: Robin Benger



Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4991446/




Jonathan Phillips attempts to find the answer to the question: How did Christianity grow and develop from just a small, Jewish sect to the largest, and majority, dominant religion of the West? Star: Jonathan Phillips



Gas Momopoly



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2148977



Weary commuters in Istanbul, Turkey must tough it out after the Marmaray Project is delayed four years by the discovery of the city's fourth century port with thirty-four ancient shipwrecks. It's one of the most significant maritime archaeological discoveries ever made. But, inconveniently, the port is discovered at Yenikapi, site of the biggest subway station in this $3.5 billion, seventy-seven kilometre long rapid transit project aimed at easing Istanbul's traffic woes.

Director: Colin King



THE WORM HUNTERS



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1996424



An epic adventure into an underground science and an unstoppable passion. Earthworm scientists concoct a plan to find and name their ultimate discovery...the world's first Super Worm. Nothing will stop them as they travel to all corners of the world with spades, GPS worm locators and secret worm outing fluids to unearth their prize. Winner of multiple film festival awards.



De weg naar het Avondland



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2269177/



Flemish rock band musician Jan Leyers looks at African, Oriental and European countries on the statistical road from the cradle of the human race to his Flemish home. Over the ages, migration brought his genes from the Horn of Africa to his native Western Europe. Migration is one of the many social issues concerning their present populations and international affairs.



Mega builders. Big Bosphorus Dig



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1677324/



Weary commuters in Istanbul, Turkey must tough it out after the Marmaray Project is delayed four years by the discovery of the city's fourth century port with thirty-four ancient shipwrecks. It's one of the most significant maritime archaeological discoveries ever made. But, inconveniently, the port is discovered at Yenikapi, site of the biggest subway station in this $3.5 billion, seventy-seven kilometre long rapid transit project aimed at easing Istanbul's traffic woes.

Director: Colin King



Putting the Fun in the fundamental



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3157878/



Elliott Gerner concludes his trawl through religion's stranger elements by considering the lasting influence the story of Noah's Ark has had on Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theology.

Director: Andy Lee Star: Elliott Gerner



Gladiatrix



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365271/



A Discovery Channel documentary about an unusual Roman era grave found in England. The grave was of a woman, but contained the grave good of a gladiator. It discusses gladiators, women

Director: Jeremy Freeston



The Struma



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326221/



Canada, 2001, 90 minutes, color, English Directed by Simcha Jacobovici

http://www.jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/struma.html



Memet Aksakal



Freelance Investigative Journalist, Fixer, Researcher



Email: aksamemet@gmail.com




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