Ocak Işık Yurtçu was a Turkish reporter detained for thirty-two months between 1993-1997 by the Turkish government for his reporting on the Kurdish–Turkish conflict, a case The New York Times called "emblematic" of the Turkish press's struggle for... Wikipedia
Born: 1945, Pozantı, Türkiye
Died: September 8, 2012 (age 67 years), İstanbul, Türkiye
Award: CPJ International Press Freedom Awards (1996)