People in the 32.Day Archive
Explore politicians, presidents, military leaders, journalists and other public figures who appear in the 32.Day archive, each with a page of catalogued footage.
The journalist who created 32.Day. His interviews run through the whole archive.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan1,571 segmentsMayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998, then founder of the AK Party, prime minister from 2003 and president from 2014.
Deniz Baykal543 segmentsLong-serving leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP).
Süleyman Demirel486 segmentsSeven-time prime minister of Turkey, removed by the military in 1971 and 1980, and president from 1993 to 2000.
Bülent Ecevit473 segmentsLeader of the CHP and later the DSP, and prime minister five times between 1974 and 2002.
George Bush449 segmentsCovers both George H. W. Bush (US president 1989–1993, Gulf War) and George W. Bush (2001–2009, Iraq War).
Tansu Çiller434 segmentsTurkey's first woman prime minister, in office from 1993 to 1996.
Necmettin Erbakan424 segmentsFounder of Turkey's Islamist political movement and prime minister in 1996–97, until the 28 February process forced him out.
Saddam Hussein413 segmentsPresident of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. 32.Day interviewed him during the Gulf crisis in 1990 and followed Iraq through two wars.
Mesut Yılmaz332 segmentsLeader of the Motherland Party (ANAP) and three-time prime minister in the 1990s.
Turgut Özal276 segmentsPrime minister of Turkey from 1983 to 1989 and president from 1989 until his death in 1993.
Mikhail Gorbachev234 segmentsLast leader of the Soviet Union, from 1985 to 1991.
Yasser Arafat217 segmentsChairman of the PLO. He gave his first interview to Turkish television to 32.Day in 1986, and the programme met him many times aft…
Abdullah Öcalan203 segmentsFounder and leader of the PKK. Mehmet Ali Birand interviewed him several times, first in 1988, and the archive holds the raw tapes…
Bill Clinton179 segmentsUS president from 1993 to 2001.
Ronald Reagan140 segmentsUS president from 1981 to 1989.
Rauf Denktaş135 segmentsTurkish Cypriot leader and founding president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Boris Yeltsin126 segmentsFirst president of the Russian Federation, from 1991 to 1999.
Margaret Thatcher111 segmentsBritish prime minister from 1979 to 1990.
Masoud Barzani110 segmentsLeader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Northern Iraq. Catalogue entries marked Barzani can also refer to other members of the…
Jalal Talabani99 segmentsLeader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, later president of Iraq.
Kenan Evren98 segmentsChief of the General Staff who led the 12 September 1980 coup and served as president until 1989. He gave long recorded interviews…
King Hussein of Jordan92 segmentsKing of Jordan from 1952 to 1999.
Helmut Kohl89 segmentsChancellor of West Germany and then reunified Germany, from 1982 to 1998.
Muammar Gaddafi84 segmentsLeader of Libya from 1969 to 2011.
Nelson Mandela71 segmentsAnti-apartheid leader and president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
Hafez al-Assad51 segmentsPresident of Syria from 1971 to 2000.
Yitzhak Rabin43 segmentsIsraeli prime minister who signed the 1993 Oslo agreement with Yasser Arafat.
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The 32.Day archive
32.Gün (32.Day) was the current-affairs programme created and presented by Mehmet Ali Birand. It first aired on TRT on 1 October 1985 and ran for more than three decades on several Turkish channels. Its crews filmed across Turkey, the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus and the former Soviet Union.
The archive is operated by Birand Yapım in Istanbul. It holds 26,617 catalogued tape segments: broadcast programmes, raw interviews and location rushes, mostly on Betacam and 1-inch tape.
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