Işık Yurtçu
✓ Source-basedfallingTurkish journalist (1945-2012)
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Ocak Işık Yurtçu was a Turkish reporter detained for thirty-two months between 1993-1997 by the Turkish government for his reporting on the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, a case The New York Times called "emblematic" of the Turkish press's struggle for press freedom in the 1990s.
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Awards 2
Connected to Işık 6
Chris AnyanwuAlso won Reporters Without Borders PrizeRuth SimonAlso won CPJ International Press Freedom Awards
Adela Navarro BelloAlso won CPJ International Press Freedom AwardsNizar NayyoufAlso won Reporters Without Borders Prize
Mazen DarwishAlso won Reporters Without Borders Prize
Beatrice MtetwaAlso won CPJ International Press Freedom AwardsAbout this person
Country
TurkeyCategory
Journalists
Type
Journalist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1945 to 2012 · aged 67
Written about in
7 languages
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