Members of the Executive Committee of the Association of European Journalists (AEJ) will visit Turkey from May 11 to 14 as guest of the Association of Turkish Economy Correspondents, The Journal of Turkish Weekly reported.
The committee includes 25 journalists from 20 countries including Germany, Britain, Armenia and Greece.
European journalists will spend the first two days of their visit in Istanbul. They will visit several touristic places and meet with CEOs of several leading Turkish companies.
AEJ Executive Committee Meeting will take place in Ankara on May 13. Members of the committee are set to be received by Turkish State Minister & Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis and State Minister Zafer Caglayan. They will come together with Union of Turkish Chambers & Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) Chairman Rifat Hisarciklioglu over a luncheon the same day.
The AEJ brings together individual journalists through their membership of the national sections. The AEJ was set up in 1961 in the then six EEC-countries and was founded by 70 journalists, convinced by the need for European integration in a democratic way who believed in the potential of journalism to promote European harmony. For that reason they were determined to defend the freedom of information and freedom of the press in Europe.
Most activities of the AEJ are arranged by the sections at national level. However, one of the aims of the international association is to create links between individual journalists; to exchange contacts, information and ideas. The AEJ partners with the European Journalism Centre (EJC), an independent institution for further training of journalists.