Can Dündar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Can Dündar

Turkish journalist

Date of Birth: 16-Jun-1961

Place of Birth: Ankara, Turkey

Profession: writer, television presenter, columnist, journalist

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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About Can Dündar

  • Can Dündar (Turkish pronunciation: [d?an dyn'da?], born 16 June 1961) is a Turkish journalist, columnist and documentarian.
  • Editor-in-chief of center-left Cumhuriyet newspaper until August 2016, he was arrested in November 2015 after his newspaper published footage showing the State Intelligence MIT sending weapons to Syrian Islamist fighters.One of the "best known" figures in Turkish media, Dündar has written for several newspapers, produced many television programs for state-owned TRT and various private channels including CNN Türk and NTV, and published more than 20 books.
  • Dündar is the recipient of the International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
  • In 2016, Can Dündar, together with Erdem Gül, were awarded the Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media, by the Leipzig Media Foundation, lead partner of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom.
  • Since June 2016, he has lived in exile in Germany, with an arrest warrant against him in Turkey.
  • Currently he is editor-in-chief of #ÖZGÜRÜZ, a web radio station run by the nonprofit newsroom CORRECTIV.

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