Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Can Dündar delivered our annual Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture.
Can Dündar is a distinguished Turkish journalist with over 40 years of experience writing, editing and making investigative documentaries. After his newspaper published footage in 2015 of Turkish security services channelling arms to Islamist fighters in Syria, he was arrested and spent 92 days in prison on charges of ‘terrorism’. the following year he was hauled back to court on treason charges and while defending himself was the subject of an attempted assassination. The same day he was sentenced to nearly 6 years imprisonment. Having fled to Germany, he now lives in exile, but continues to report on the situation in Turkey.
He addresses the CIJ conference, giving insights from his life and career on how to continue to hold the powerful to account when not only your journalism, but your freedom and even your life are under threat.
Chaired by CIJ director James Harkin.
Can Dündar delivered our annual Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture.
Can Dündar is a distinguished Turkish journalist with over 40 years of experience writing, editing and making investigative documentaries. After his newspaper published footage in 2015 of Turkish security services channelling arms to Islamist fighters in Syria, he was arrested and spent 92 days in prison on charges of ‘terrorism’. the following year he was hauled back to court on treason charges and while defending himself was the subject of an attempted assassination. The same day he was sentenced to nearly 6 years imprisonment. Having fled to Germany, he now lives in exile, but continues to report on the situation in Turkey.
He addresses the CIJ conference, giving insights from his life and career on how to continue to hold the powerful to account when not only your journalism, but your freedom and even your life are under threat.
Chaired by CIJ director James Harkin.
