Dilek Dündar

A woman has succeeded in transforming the western province of Muğla into a handicapped-friendly city via years of dedicated work, motivated by the difficulties her disabled relative encounters on a daily basis.

A Turkish prosecutor assigned to terror cases escaped unharmed late on Dec. 7 after unknown assailants fired on his car in Istanbul's Sultangazi district.

The PEN International Office in Germany has given its Herman Kesten Award to the former editor-in-chief of daily Cumhuriyet, Can Dündar, and Cumhuriyet's Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gül. 

Sascha Feuchert, vice chairman of the PEN Germany Office, said "two brave fighters of freedom" were awarded a prize worth 10,000 euros in his speech at the Nov. 17 award ceremony.

Istanbul police raided the house of Can Dündar in the Çengelköy neighborhood of Istanbul, the former editor-in-chief of daily Cumhuriyet, as part of an operation against the newspaper on Oct. 31.

Police could not find anyone at home, but Can Dündar's wife, Dilek Dündar, flew from İzmir to Istanbul to open the house to police.

One of the plotters of the July 15 attempted coup, the Air Forces "imam" of the Fethullah gang, Adil Öksüz, somehow cannot be found. But Öksüz's mother-in-law Hatice Yıldırım has been arrested. You must have seen her photos in the papers; she is an elderly lady in a wheelchair. It is not clear which stage of the coup planning she was involved in. 

Two international press organizations have called on Turkish authorities to return the passport of Dilek Dündar, the wife of former daily Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief Can Dündar, after she was banned from traveling abroad on Sept. 3.

Turkish poet and writer Naz?m Hikmet will be commemorated on the 114th anniversary of his birth with a large event in Essen, Germany, on Jan. 31. 

Hürriyet's Ahmet Hakan interviews the wives of prominent Cumhuriyet journalists who have been under arrest at Istanbul's Silivri prison for 42 days over a story on Syria-bound National Intelligence Agency (M?T) trucks that were allegedly carrying weapons to fighters in Syria.