Burak Bekdil

Burak Bekdil is a Turkish columnist writing currently for the daily Hürriyet.

James Cuno, art historian and President of the J. Paul Getty Trust, describes Bekdil as "a frequent critic of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[1] in 2002, he received an eighteen month suspended sentence for "insulting the judiciary".[2]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ James Cuno, Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums And The Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage, Princeton University Press, 2008, p. 187.
  2. ↑ The global network for free expression, 21 May 2002, Journalist Burak Bekdil receives 18-month suspended sentence http://www.ifex.org/turkey/2002/05/21/journalist_burak_bekdil_receives/
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