Ahmet Hakan


Ahmet Hakan Coşkun is a Turkish columnist, currently working at Hürriyet, CNN Türk and Kanal D. He studied at Bursa Religious High School and then Bursa Divinity Faculty He used to be anchorman for the television channel Kanal 7 founded by Necmettin Erbakan the founder/leader of Welfare Party.

Biography

Ahmet Hakan Coşkun was born in Yozgat Province, on 11 August 1967. Hakan studied at Bursa Imam Hatip school during his youth. He graduated from Bursa Divinity Faculty Bursa Ilahiyat Fakultesi. Between 1993 and 1994, he worked as a reporter at TGRT, a Turkish Television channel. In 2003, he became Kanal 7s news director. Then, he worked as a columnist at Yeni Şafak newspaper. He is currently working at Hürriyet, CNN Türk and Kanal D.

Threats and attacks against Ahmet Hakan

Star newspaper's writer, Cem Küçük, threatened Ahmet Hakan with these words on an article published on 9 September 2015: "Like a patient suffering from schizophrenia, you still think that Hürriyet manages Turkey like the old days. We can crush you like a fly whenever we want. So far we have had mercy and you can still survive." As a result, Ahmet Hakan filed a complaint against Cem Küçük on the same day.
CHP member Eren Erdem, submitted a questionnaire to TBMM Presidency in relation to this issue. Yeni Şafak's author Abdulkadir Selvi wrote in his column: "These are not the right things. Turkey and the AK Party do not deserve it." President of Association of Contemporary Journalists, Ahmet Abakay, also said: "Hrant was killed after receiving numerous threats. Metin Göktepe was killed the same way. Such murders begin this way." Turkish Journalists' Association, the Press Council and many other organizations and a number of journalists condemned this attack.
In a video taken 24 hours after the second attack on Hürriyet newspaper, AKP member Abdurrahim Boynukalin, said: "I was thinking about going to Nişantaşı today, in front of his house. I was going to get there, and I'd say, 'come here'. Our mistake was to not beat them up at the right time."
Hakan was attacked by four people in front of his house on 1 October 2015. Hakan's nose and ribs were broken before he demanded protection, but the application related to the issue was not processed in any way. Two of the attackers appeared to be members of the Justice and Development Party, Fatih District Organization.

Books authored

Ahmet Hakan has three books: