Abdullah Bozkurt
{{Short description|Turkish journalist (born 1971)}}
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| name = Abdullah Bozkurt
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| caption = Bozkurt in 2016
| birth_date = 1971
| birth_place = Balıkesir, Turkey
| occupation = Journalist
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Abdullah Bozkurt (born 1971) is a Turkish journalist. He was the bureau chief for the Gülen-aligned newspaper Today's Zaman.{{cite news |last1=Lowen |first1=Mark |title=Who are the Gulenists? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36920535 |access-date=26 March 2020 |work=BBC News |date=29 July 2016}}
Biography
Bozkurt started his work in journalism with the newspaper Zaman. He worked as the New York Bureau Chief and Washington Representative of Zaman Newspaper. Afterwards, he continued the same work for the newspaper Today's Zaman.
In 2011, Bozkurt defended the imprisonment of journalists in the Ergenekon investigation stating that journalists like Ahmet Şık were not being an investigative journalist conducting "independent research", but was hatching "a plot designed and put into action by the terrorist network itself".[http://www.todayszaman.com/columnist-239479-ergenekon-gulen-and-media-freedom.html Article of 29 March 2011] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201055315/http://www.todayszaman.com/columnist-239479-ergenekon-gulen-and-media-freedom.html |date=1 February 2016 }}; accessed on 5 April 2011
Bozkurt has lived outside Turkey since the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt. In Turkey, he has a warrant out for his arrest stemming from allegations of membership in the Gülen movement,{{cite news |last1=Erbay |first1=Nur Özkan |title=How does FETÖ's mouthpiece in Sweden generate fake news? |url=https://www.dailysabah.com/op-ed/2020/01/06/how-does-fetos-mouthpiece-in-sweden-generate-fake-news |access-date=21 June 2020 |work=Daily Sabah |date=6 January 2020 |quote=Bozkurt has a warrant out for his arrest stemming from his FETÖ membership}}{{cite news |last1=Hatip |first1=Yusuf |title=FETO fugitive complains of Turkish anti-Israel protests |url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/feto-fugitive-complains-of-turkish-anti-israel-protests/1000514 |access-date=21 June 2020 |work=aa.com.tr |date=10 December 2017}}{{cite news |title=Suspected members of FETO terror group allowed to spread propaganda at UN |url=https://www.trtworld.com/turkey/suspected-members-of-feto-terror-group-allowed-to-spread-propaganda-at-un-24706 |access-date=21 June 2020 |work=TRT World |date=6 March 2019 }} which the Turkish government considers to be a terrorist group.{{cite news |title=Turkey officially designates Gulen religious group as terrorists |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-gulen-idUSKCN0YM167 |access-date=26 March 2020 |work=Reuters |date=31 May 2016 }} Terrorism charges are frequently used by the Turkish government against dissident journalists.{{Cite journal|last=Costa-Kostritsky|first=Valeria|date=2016-07-01|title=We are journalists, not terrorists: How reporters around Europe are being silenced by accusations that their work threatens national security|journal=Index on Censorship|language=en|volume=45|issue=2|pages=11–14|doi=10.1177/0306422016657010|issn=0306-4220|doi-access=free}}{{Cite web|date=2012-10-01|title=Turkey's Press Freedom Crisis|url=https://cpj.org/reports/2012/10/turkeys-press-freedom-crisis/|access-date=2020-06-25|website=Committee to Protect Journalists|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|year=2019|title=Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Turkey|url=https://www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/turkey/|access-date=2020-06-25|website=United States Department of State|language=en-US}} In June 2020, a segment on the private television station TGRT Haber called for Bozkurt to be "exterminated".{{Cite web|last=Bekdil|first=Burak|date=2020-07-30|title=Paradoxical Turkey|url=https://www.meforum.org/61335/paradoxical-turkey|access-date=2020-08-17|website=Middle East Forum|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Antonopoulos|first=Paul|date=2020-06-05|title=Turkish Television Program Calls For The Country's Intelligence Agency To Kill Journalists|url=https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/06/05/turkish-television-program-calls-for-the-countrys-intelligence-agency-to-kill-journalists/|access-date=2020-08-17|website=Greek City Times|language=en-US}}
In Sweden, Bozkurt created the Nordic Research & Monitoring Network (or Nordic Monitor), of which he is the director.{{cite news |last1=Benakis |first1=Theodoros |title=Abdullah Bozkurt: Erdogan has built a new Berlin wall all around Turkey |url=https://www.europeaninterest.eu/article/abdullah-bozkurt-erdogan-built-new-berlin-wall-around-turkey/ |access-date=26 March 2020 |work=European Interest |date=22 July 2018}}
See also
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