Cemal Gürsel

Some 400,000 people have visited the nation's first indigenous car named "Devrim," which means "Revolution" in English, since March 2018 in a museum in the northwestern province of Eskişehir, where it is on display.

The 60-year-old car, which had adorned the museum's garden in the open air for years amusing onlookers, has been on display inside a glass block for three years.

The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) will present the one-off "Ahmet Cemal First Translation Award" in honor of the esteemed author and translator Ahmet Cemal who passed away on Aug. 1, 2017. 

Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal on April 3 received a suspended jail sentence of one year and six months on charges of "conducting terror propaganda" over columns he published in 2013.

Veteran journalist Kadri Gürsel, a columnist at daily Cumhuriyet who has been in jail since Nov. 5, 2016, has refuted allegations against him in a letter from jail, saying that most of the phone records presented as "evidence" that he aided a terrorist organization are SMS messages and it would be "absurd to infer criminal acts from those records."

An investigation has been launched into veteran journalist Hasan Cemal over his recent article titled "The Sultan in the Palace is culpable for the bloodshed," Cemal has told daily Hürriyet.

Cemal was summoned to testify on Sept. 17 and the probe was launched purportedly on the charge of "insulting the Turkish president" in his article published on news website T24 on Aug. 12.

Renowned Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal received the Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism in a ceremony held at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University on March 12.

In December 2014, the Nieman Class of 2015 chose Cemal in recognition of his long career dedicated to championing freedom of the press in Turkey.