Çetin Altan, is a Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 writer, journalist, and a former member of parliament.

Biography

After graduating from Galatasaray High School, he received BA in Law in Ankara University

Ankara University

Ankara University is a public university in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. It was the first higher education institution founded in the Turkish Republic....

. His first book was published in 1946. Altan accepted Abdi İpekçi

Abdi Ipekçi

Abdi İpekçi was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and an activist for human rights. He was murdered while editor-in-chief of the Turkish daily newspaper Milliyet.-Biography:...

's offer in 1959 and became a journalist in Milliyet

Milliyet

Milliyet is a major Turkish daily newspaper founded in 1950.-History:Milliyet came to publishing life at the Nuri Akça press in Babıali, Istanbul as a daily private newspaper on 3 May 1950...

. Then he worked in the newspapers Akşam, Hürriyet

Hürriyet

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, Güneş

Güneş

Güneş is a defunct Turkish sports club of Istanbul, Turkey.They were founded in 1935 as a breakaway club from Galatasaray SK and had the same colors ....

, Sabah

Sabah (newspaper)

Sabah is a popular Turkish daily newspaper, with a circulation of around 330,000 as of 2011. Its name means "morning" in the Turkish language originating from Arabic...

 and again in Milliyet

Milliyet

Milliyet is a major Turkish daily newspaper founded in 1950.-History:Milliyet came to publishing life at the Nuri Akça press in Babıali, Istanbul as a daily private newspaper on 3 May 1950...

.

Çetin

Çetin

Çetin is a common masculine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Çetin" means "Tough", "Robust", "Strong", "Hard", and/or "Arduous".-Given name:* Çetin Alp , a Turkish pop music singer...

 Altan was a member of parliament for Workers Party of Turkey

Workers Party of Turkey

Workers Party of Turkey was a Turkish political party, founded in 1961. It became the first socialist party in Turkey to win representation in the national parliament. It was banned twice and eventually merged with the Communist Party of Turkey in 1988.TİP was founded by a group of labor union...

between 1965 and 1969. He has been prosecuted more than 300 times because of his articles. Altan has been arrested three times and convicted two times.