Defending people's right to know | Can Dündar | TEDxFrankfurt

For more information on Can Dündar, visit our website: www.tedxfrankfurt.de Can Dündar has been working as a journalist for the last 40 years, for several newspapers, magazines, TV companies. He produced many TV documentaries focusing particularly on modern Turkish history and biographies. He worked as an anchorman for several news channels. He stepped down from his post as the editor in chief of the daily Cumhuriyet on August 2016, after he was sentenced 5 years and 10 months of imprisonment due to his story on the Turkish Intelligence Service’s involvement in the Syrian war. He was jailed for 3 months and survived an assassination attempt. He now lives in exile in Germany. He is a columnist for German daily Die Zeit and commentator for German WDR’s Cosmo. He founded the news radio called #Özgürüz in exile… Dündar has been nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. He is the writer of 40 books, some of which were published in German, English, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Chinese. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx