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Turkish Editor Can Dundar: Why I Am Forced Into Exile

Dundar, center, after his release from jail.
Dundar, center, after his release from jail. Ozgur Ogret

Can Dündar, a recipient of the *Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2016 International Press Freedom Awards who served jail time this past year and was facing another prosecution, announced in his column that he was resigning as editor of the opposition daily newspaper Cumhuriyet. He is believed to be in Germany, and wrote Monday that he […]

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No Assassin, Nor Erdogan, Will Silence Us — Can Dundar Recounts Shooting

Can and Dilek Dundar just after the attack
Can and Dilek Dundar just after the attack Cumhuriyet handout

The Turkish editor and a lonely press critic of President Erdogan was the target of a gunman who screamed “traitor” before firing outside an Istanbul courthouse. Dundar tells of his wife’s courage and his own determination to speak truth

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