Kamuran Sunbat | |
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Nationality | Turkish |
Citizenship | Turkey |
Occupation | journalist/correspondent |
Organization | Dicle News Ajamsi (DiHA) |
Criminal status | The former Cukurova correspondent of the pro-Kurdish Dicle News Ajansi (DiHA), was arrested in 2011. He was convicted over alleged links to outlawed Kurdish militant groups and is currently serving a sentence of 11 years, 11 motnhs in priosn. |
Kamuran Sunbat is the former Cukurova correspondent of the pro-Kurdish Dicle News Ajansi (DiHA), was arrested in 2011. He was convicted over alleged links to outlawed Kurdish militant groups and is currently serving a sentence of 11 years, 11 motnhs in priosn.journalist.
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editis a Turkish journalist. He became prominent when the Turkish government imprisoned him for his coverage on groups associated with terrorism. On October 31, 2016, while working for the newspaper Cumhuriyet, Kadri Gürsel was taken into custody together with many of his colleagues.[1] The journalists were arrested for alleged ties to terrorist organizations, including the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), and the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).[2]
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- ^ "Silencing Turkey's Media | The Government's Deepening Assault on Critical Journalism". Human Rights Watch. 15 December 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
- ^ "Turkish journalists march for jailed colleagues ahead of trial - Turkey News". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 4 October 2018.