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born in 1961 in Ankara, Turkey, is a journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author. As editor-in-chief of the newspaper Cumhuriyet, which was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (the \u00bbAlternative Nobel Prize\u00ab) in 2016, he reported, among other topics, on arms deliveries by the Turkish intelligence service to Syria. Due to his investigative reporting, he was sentenced in absentia in Turkey to 27 years and 6 months in prison on charges of espionage and revealing state secrets. During the trial, an assassination attempt was made on him in front of a courthouse in Istanbul in May 2016. In his book \u00bbIch traf meinen M\u00f6rder\u00ab (tr. I Met My Killer, 2025), Can D\u00fcndar recounts how, years later, he comes face to face with his would-be assassin \u2013 a man now imprisoned in Buenos Aires who, facing deportation to Turkey, fears for his own life. D\u00fcndar exposes networks of covert deals between democratic and authoritarian governments, revealing their ties to organized crime and terrorist organizations. He has produced numerous documentaries, wrote columns for Die Zeit and for Gorki Theatre, as well as comments for Radio Cosmo. He founded the news platform #\u00d6zg\u00fcr\u00fcz (tr. #We are free), through which he reaches 4.5 million people. In 2017, Can D\u00fcndar was named European Journalist of the Year and has received numerous awards, including the Human Rights Award from Reporters Without Borders, the Lew Kopelew Prize, the Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media, WAN-IFRA\u2019s Golden Pen of Freedom, the Gustav Heinemann Citizen Award from the SPD, the International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Hermann Kesten Preis from PEN Centre Germany. D\u00fcndar lives and works in exile in Berlin. <\/p>\n\n

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