Burak Bekdil

Burak Bekdil is a Turkish columnist who wrote for the daily Hürriyet for 29 years until January 2017, when he was fired "for writing what was actually taking place in Turkey." [1]

James Cuno, art historian and President of the J. Paul Getty Trust, describes Bekdil as "a frequent critic of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[2] in 2002, he received an eighteen-month suspended sentence for "insulting the judiciary".[3]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9731/turkey-lifestyle-massacre
  2. ↑ James Cuno, Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums And The Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage, Princeton University Press, 2008, p. 187.
  3. ↑ The global network for free expression, 21 May 2002, Journalist Burak Bekdil receives 18-month suspended sentence http://www.ifex.org/turkey/2002/05/21/journalist_burak_bekdil_receives/


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