President
Union President
Hasan Taşkın
Born in Rize – Pazar in 1965, Hasan Taşkın completed his primary education in Pazar and his high school education in Istanbul. He studied at Eskişehir University Social Sciences department. He also completed his undergraduate studies in Law at Nova University Faculty of Law and ESLG, European School of Law and Governance in Slovenia. He successfully completed his legal internship at Gaziantep Bar Association.
He started journalism in 1988 with the publication of the Monthly Magazine named ‘Rizeliler’. In 1992, he became a reporter at Anadolu Agency (AA) Istanbul Regional Directorate. He wrote investigation and research news about important police and judicial events that created the agenda with his AA signature.
After February 28, he was exiled to AA Trabzon Regional Directorate in 1998. He came to the fore with the important news he signed in Trabzon.
In December 2000, he was exiled first to AA Van and then to AA Konya Regional Directorate. It attracted attention in Konya with its news focused on Economy and Politics. He left AA in May 2002.
He started working at Yeni Şafak Newspaper in May 2002. He made research and analysis news here. Taşkın, who started working in Sabah newspaper in 2003, came to the fore with his special news despite working in Sabah for 4 months. Reacting to the appointment of the then AA General Manager Mehmet Güler, who had been exiled in AA, to the Sabah newspaper, he resigned from Sabah and moved to Nokta magazine in the same year. He attracted attention with his cover news in Nokta Magazine in 2003.
After leaving Nokta in 2004, he started writing books between 2004 and 2009. During this period, he wrote popular and important books such as “That Deep State, Israel’s Gap Scenario, Vatican’s Türkiye Scenario”. In 2008, he produced and hosted the live broadcast program called “Tam Saati” every weekday on Bengütürk TV for 6 months.
Between 2008 and 2010, Taşkın served as the communications director of “Wenice” and “MOL” stores, which have 412 stores in 42 countries around the world. He ensured that the work of these institutions was featured hundreds of times in the Turkish and world press. For his work, he was awarded the “Best Communicator of the Year” award in Northern Cyprus in 2009.
He served as general manager at 3M-R&D company, owned by Istanbul Technical University Foundation, between 2010 and 2012. Company revenues increased by 500 percent during this period.
Hasan Taşkın was appointed as Türk Telekom CEO Consultant between 2012 and 2014.
In 2013, he also served as the Media Consultant of ‘Eskişehir 2013 Turkish World Cultural Capital Agency’ Chairman of the Board and Eskişehir Governor Güngör Azim Tuna.
In 2014, he became the founding president of UCWEP. UCWEP started its operations with the Decree of the Council of Ministers and the approval of the President. He still continues this duty.
As of June 1, 2016, Taşkın was appointed as the ‘Cihan News Agency Ankara Representative’ by the court-appointed Trustee. The same Agency was closed by Decree Law on July 28. FETO stood by the National Will during and after the coup attempt and produced important news and images.
Taşkın became the Ankara Representative and parliamentary correspondent of Diriliş Postası Newspaper in August 2016. He continued in this position until December 13, 2019. Taşkın, who holds a permanent Press Card, has 14 published research books. Taşkın is married and has four children.
