Doğan Yurdakul
Doğan Yurdakul is a Turkish journalist and writer. He has contributed to newspapers including Vatan, Aydınlık, Evrensel, Siyah-Beyaz, and Günaydın as well as the television news programme 32. Gün. His books include biographies of Turkish intelligence agent Hiram Abas and of Abdullah Çatlı, both written with Soner Yalçın.
Yurdakul is charged in the Odatv case of the Ergenekon trials; he was the news co-ordinator of odatv. He was arrested in March 2011 and released on health grounds in February 2012. Both of the trials later were dismissed on grounds of judicial irregularities while confirming the evidence presented to be falsified.
