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Thomas Goltz was born on 11 October, 1954 in Japan, is an American author and journalist (1954–2023). Discover Thomas Goltz's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?
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29 July, 2023 |
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Thomas Goltz Net Worth
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Thomas Goltz (October 11, 1954 – July 29, 2023) was an American author and journalist best known for his accounts of conflict in the Caucasus region during the 1990s.
He spent 15 years in and around Turkey and the Caucasus.
He married to Hicran Oge in 1984 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Goltz were able to fluently speak English, German, Turkish, and Azerbaijani.
He knew some Arabic, Russian and Japanese too.
He died on July 29, 2023, at the age of 68 after a long illness.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev sent a condolences message to his family and described Goltz as "great friend of Azerbaijan".
He directed and co-produced a documentary for Global Vision's Rights and Wrongs program which was a finalist in the Rory Peck Award for excellence in television journalism in 1996
Goltz has written news for most leading US publications, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
In-depth articles have appeared in Foreign Policy magazine, The National Interest, The Washington Quarterly and other broad-based magazines.
In electronic media, he has worked on or produced video documentaries on a variety of topics for ABC/Nightline, BBC/Correspondent and CBS/60 Minutes.
He became known mainly as a crisis correspondent due to coverage of the first war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Karabakh, the war of secession in Abkhazia from Georgia and the separatist conflict in Chechnya.
He spent time in Samashki, Chechnya before the massacre happened there.
He made video reports about the massacre immediately afterwards.
Goltz made a film out of them which was in mainstream in US, UK, and even in Russia.
On August 22, 2000, Goltz carried the symbolic “first barrel of oil” from Baku, Azerbaijan with IMZ sidecar motorcycle, to Ceyhan, Turkey with other 25 riders.
They used to future Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline route at the time.
The aim was to draw attention to this mega project which symbolizes both Azerbaijan's and Georgia's (country) economic independence.
He lectured at most leading US universities including Columbia, Georgetown, Berkeley, Northwestern, Princeton, etc and foreign policy-related institutes in Azerbaijan, Canada, Georgia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Other than that he was also professor in Montana State University.
The Armenian National Committee of Canada accused Goltz of racism in March 2009 for remarks made at a lecture allegedly sponsored by Assembly of Azerbaijani-Canadian Organizations.
According to the Armenian National Committee, Goltz characterized the Armenian inhabitants of Nagorno-Karabakh as "garlic-growing Armenians", and selectively mentioned instances of ethnic cleansing by Armenians against Azerbaijanis while omitting mention of cases of ethnic cleansing of Armenians by Azerbaijanis.
In 2020, he was awarded an honorary PhD by the ADA University.
Thomas Goltz was born in Japan and raised in North Dakota.
He graduated from New York University with an MA in Middle East studies.