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." Today he is a Fellow at the Middle East Forum and has covered Turkey for the U.S. weekly Defense News since 1997. His articles have been published in many international media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, BBC, The Guardian, Reuters, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, Toronto Star, Financial Times, Le Figaro, ABC, El Pais, Stern, Al-Arabiya, etc.
James Cuno, art historian and President of the J. Paul Getty Trust, describes Bekdil as "a frequent critic of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
in 2002, he received an eighteen-month suspended sentence for "insulting the judiciary".Footnotes
