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His imprisonment in Turkey in 2017\/18 for his journalistic work drew international attention, an experience he recounted in his 2019 book \u00bbAgentterrorist \u2013 Eine Geschichte \u00fcber Freiheit und Freundschaft, Demokratie und Nichtsodemokratie\u00ab [tr.: Agentterrorist \u2013 A Story about Freedom and Friendship, Democracy and Non-Democracy]. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Kurt Tucholsky Prize [2011], the Theodor Wolff Prize [2017], and the Prize for Freedom and Future of the Media [2017]. 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