Short vita
Aret Demirci has been serving as Project Director for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Bulgaria and the South Caucasus since August 2026. Prior to this role, he led the Foundation's offices in Türkiye and Lebanon and served as Deputy Head of the Regional Office for Southeast and Eastern Europe.
He has been with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for over 13 years, holding various positions across the organization's international network. His work focuses on democracy promotion, political dialogue, regional cooperation, and international development.
Aret studied Latin American Regional Studies at the University of Cologne (Germany) and the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) in Buenos Aires. He speaks German, English, Turkish, and Spanish.
Contributions
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Miracles happen all the time
According to official figures, the devastating earthquake in south-eastern Turkey on 6 February killed almost 50,000 people and destroyed entire regions. But in addition to all the damage and suffering caused by the earthquake, there were also many miracles - such as the rescue of numerous people from the ruins even after almost 300 hours after the earthquake. Another miracle concerns the rapprochement between the eternal enemies Greece and Turkey.
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Ukrainian human rights organization receives Nobel Peace Prize
On Saturday, the Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded in Oslo - among others to the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. Oleksandra Matviichuk will receive the prestigious prize on behalf of the organisation, which was founded in 2007 with the aim of promoting human rights and democracy in Ukraine and prosecuting human rights violations and war crimes. She is an ambassador of the Female Forward campaign of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.
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#MeToo Greece: Women ending silence of sexual abuse
More than three years after the MeToo movement in the US brought shockwaves to the glittering world of Hollywood, a former Olympic champion in Greece opened the debate on revelations of sexual abuse in this country, too, shaking politics and society. FNF took up the issue with a panel discussion with prominent speakers.
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The Playbook – Liberal Leadership and Strategic Communications in the COVID-19 Era
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about new political and policy challenges and has reframed old ones. It is the goal of the report “The Playbook – Liberal Leadership and Communications in the COVID-19 era” to take stock of these evolutions and synthesize some of the issues that liberal leaders have to respond to in a context of massive uncertainty.
