Hamza Aktan
Hamza Aktan is a Kurdish journalist and writer.
After he graduated from the Yuksekova Lisesi, he studied journalism in Istanbul at Marmara University and law at Cyprus' Near East University. He is the author of a book titled "Kürt Vatandaş". He has worked for several Turkish daily, weekly or monthly publications including Bianet, Birgun, Post Express, Nokta, Yeni Safak, Toplumsal Tarih and IMC TV as correspondent, editor and lastly as news director. He also has contributed to some other Turkish publications including Birikim, haysiyet.com, Radikal. He was detained over five tweets and the prosecution demanded a prison sentence between one and five years. After a few days in detention he was released in May 2016 on “judicial control“.
