Ahmet Altan
- January 6, 2024
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Ahmet Altan Biography
| Name | Ahmet Altan |
| Birthday | Mar 2 |
| Birth Year | 1950 |
| Place Of Birth | Ankara |
| Home Town | Ankara |
| Birth Country | Turkey |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
| Siblings | Mehmet Altan, Zeynep Bakan |
| Spouse | Gülnur Altan |
| Children(s) | Kerem Altan |
Ahmet Altan is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on March 2, 1950 in Ankara, Ankara, Turkey. He was born 1950 in Ankara, Turkey to the notable journalist and writer Çetin Altan as the first of two sons. His brother Mehmet Altan is also a journalist, writer and university professor of economy politics.
In September 2008 when Altan published an article titled “Oh, My Brother” dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide, he was charged under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code for “denigrating Turkishness”. The judicial claim was initiated by the far-right “Great Union Party.”
During Turkey’s media purge after the failed July 2016 coup d’état on September 23, 2016, Altan, was arrested. He is accused of sending “subliminal messages” to encourage 2016 Turkish coup d’état attempt planners.
In September 2017, while banned from written communications, Altan produced an essay The Writer’s Paradox in which he says: ‘I am writing these words from a prison cell … But wait. Before you start playing the drums of mercy for me listen to what I will tell you … They may have the power to imprison me but no one has the power to keep me in prison. I am a writer.’ The essay was published on 18 September 2017, on the eve of Altan’s trial: in English by The Society of Authors (translated by Yasemin Çongar) and in the original Turkish by English PEN.
In 2007 he became the founding editor-in-chief and lead columnist of Taraf, a daily Turkish newspaper, and remained in the position until his resignation in December 2012.
Ahmet Altan Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Author |
| House | Living in own house. |
Ahmet Altan is one of the richest Author from Turkey. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ahmet Altan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Ahmet Hüsrev Altan (born 2 March 1950) is a Turkish journalist and author. A working journalist for more than twenty years, he has served in all stages of the profession, from being a night shift reporter to editor in chief in various newspapers.
He was fired from Milliyet after writing a column on 17 April 1995 titled “Atakürt”, which presented an alternate history of Turkey as a Kurdish state (“Kürdiye”) in which ethnic Turks are oppressed and forced to assimilate.
On December 14, 2012, Ahmet Altan resigned his post as editor-in-chief of Taraf. With him stepped down his assistant editor Yasemin Çongar, and Neşe Tüzel. The next day, the three departing journalists were joined by columnist Hadi Uluengin.
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Who is Ahmet Altan Dating?
According to our records, Ahmet Altan married to Gülnur Altan. As of December 1, 2023, Ahmet Altan’s is not dating anyone.
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Ahmet Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Turkey. Ahmet Altan celebrates birthday on March 2 of every year.
Top Facts about Ahmet Altan
1. Ahmet Hüsrev Altan is a Turkish journalist and author, born in Ankara in
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2. His brother Mehment Altan is also a journalist, writer and university professor of political economy.
3. Altan has produced news programming for television and written columns in several Turkish newspapers.
4. In 1995, he received a suspended sentence to an imprisonment of 1 year and 8 months for a column he wrote on an alternate history of Turkey as a Kurdish state.
5. He was the founding editor-in-chief and lead columnist of the Taraf newspaper from 2007 to 2012.
6. In 2008, he was charged under Turkish Penal Code Article 301 for “denigrating Turkishness” for an article acknowledging the Armenian genocide.
7. Altan and some of his Taraf associates usually carried firearms for self- protection.
8. He was accused of working to silence allegations of Gülen movement cheating in Turkey to gain power.
9. He was arrested in 2016 on suspicion of sending “subliminal messages” to encourage the 2016 Turkish coup d’état attempt.
10. In 2017, he wrote an essay The Writer’s Paradox while banned from written communications.
11. Many authors spoke out in support of Altan during his trial.
12. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2018, and awarded the Geschwister Scholl Prize by the Bavarian branch of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association in 2019.
13. His memoirs, I Will Never See the World Again, were longlisted for the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize and are published in 17 countries.
14. Altan was released from prison in 2021 after the Court of Cassation ordered his release.
15. He was detained again after a ruling reversed his release in 2019.