![]() In 2007 he became the founding editor-in-chief and lead columnist of the Taraf, a daily Turkish newspaper, and remained in the position until his resignation in December 2012. ![]() For the same column he received a suspended sentence to an imprisonment of 1 year and 8 months and fined about $12'000. He was fired from Milliyet after writing a column on 17 April 1995 titled "Atakürt", which presented an alternate history of Turkey as a Kurdish state ("Kürdiye") in which ethnic Turks are oppressed and forced to assimilate. In addition to having written columns in several Turkish newspapers, including Hürriyet, Milliyet and Radikal, Altan has produced news programming for television. His brother Mehmet Altan is also a journalist, writer and university professor of political economy. He was born 1950 in Ankara, Turkey to the notable journalist and writer Çetin Altan as the first of two sons. A working journalist for more than twenty years, he has served in all stages of the profession, from being a night shift reporter to editor in chief in various newspapers. Editor-in-chief and lead columnist of Taraf (2007–2012)Īhmet Hüsrev Altan (born 2 March 1950) is a Turkish journalist and author. ![]()
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