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Batuhan Ateş was born in Ankara in 1996. Originally from Malatya, Ateş completed his primary, secondary, and high school education in the Manavgat district of Antalya. In 2020, he graduated from the Faculty of Communication, Department of Journalism at Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University. During his academic career, he gained experience in the field of new media and completed internships in social media journalism and reporting at institutions such as the Manas University Media Center, Manavgat Media Group, Sahil News Agency, and Crimea News Agency. Throughout his education, he also took part in numerous international digital media projects.

One year after his graduation, he co-founded the Asman Media platform with his university friends. While residing in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, he managed the platform and provided free consultancy services to various Turkish governmental institutions in the fields of corporate communication, social media management, digital marketing, and PR. Returning to Turkey in 2021, Ateş combined his media experience with the tourism sector, working as a Social Media Assistant at Sueno Hotels in Antalya and later as a Digital Media Manager at Orange County Hotels in 2022. With the trend-content algorithm strategy he applied in social media management, he helped Orange County Hotels rank 3rd in Turkey within the tourism sector’s social media statistics, significantly contributing to follower growth, brand awareness, and customer engagement.

In 2023, he worked as a Digital Marketing Manager at the Germany-based energy consultancy company Mediawirt Co, where he gained extensive knowledge of digital media and e-commerce processes in the European market, actively participating in multiple e-commerce projects. At the end of 2023 and in 2024, Ateş served as the Deputy Director of Corporate Communications at Antalya Belek University. In this role, he took an active part in all internal and external corporate communication processes, website management, and social media operations. For the first time since the university’s establishment, he significantly increased its social media engagement with his content production strategy, reaching thousands with the university’s most-viewed video and receiving recognition from the Rectorate.

Ateş’s areas of expertise include media diplomacy, corporate communication, press/PR, digital literacy, content algorithm strategies and training for social media, website management and design processes, SEO/SEM, digital marketing, mobile production, branding content strategy, affiliate marketing, volunteer media work with NGOs, and sectoral digital training for public institutions and businesses.

He has published opinion articles on national and international news platforms and continues to produce independent digital news content.

Ateş is currently serving as the Turkey Marketing/PR Manager for the international construction company Teus Group’s hotel/residence project in Antalya. He also continues to provide free online social media and digital marketing consultancy and training to brands, public institutions, and students. He is proficient in English, German, Russian, Kyrgyz, and Kazakh.