Biography
Fahrettin Altun is a Turkish academic, author and former government official. Born on 11 September 1976 in Stuttgart, Germany, he graduated in sociology from Istanbul University in 1998 and completed a PhD there in 2006 with a thesis comparing the media theories of McLuhan and Baudrillard.
He held teaching and administrative posts at Istanbul Şehir University and Istanbul Medeniyet University, and served as general coordinator of the SETA think tank. From 2018 to 2025 he was head of the Turkish Presidency’s Directorate of Communications.
Altun appeared as himself in the 2020 documentary The Dissident.
