Meet the Man Transforming Journalism in Turkey
Piotr Zalewski / Istanbul @p_zalewski
May 28, 2015
Frustrated at established media outlets, Engin Onder took to Twitter to create a citizen journalism organization
On Dec. 28, 2011 two Turkish fighter jets flying near the Iraqi border dropped bombs on what they believed to be a column of militants belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a Kurdish separatist group. Thirty-four people died in the attack. When witnesses arrived at the scene they discovered that the dead were villagers, not fighters. Some were as young as 12 or 13. The group had been smuggling fuel and cigarettes into Turkey.
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