Nurettin Kurt

Nurettin Kurt, an award-winning Turkish crime reporter who had been treated in a hospital for lung failure for some time, has died at the age of 59 in the capital Ankara.

A funeral was held on April 12 for the journalist, and he was laid to rest at the Karşıyaka cemetery.

Three Turkish journalists, including daily Hürriyet reporter Nurettin Kurt, were honored with the European Union Investigative Journalism Awards for the first time this year at a ceremony in Istanbul on June 29 for original investigative reporting in 2014 that had significant social impact in Turkey.

Daily Hürriyet reporter Nurettin Kurt