Mahmut Karaduman was a Turkish national and the

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in a famous libel case. The

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newspaper ''

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'' wrote a series of thirty-two articles entitled ''The Heroin Trail'', which was awarded the

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Gold Medal for public service. Karaduman sued ''

'' over the following description:

The owner of the Karavan nightclub in Istanbul's Galatasaray Square, middle-aged Douman aradumandivides his time between
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, where his brother handles base shipments, and villas in
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and
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. He specializes in smuggling by the Black Sea route. His lieutenant, a Turk named Gabi Kaiat, lives in
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and handles transshipments on the
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n end.

Bob Greene,

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and Knut Royce were the ''Newsday'' journalists Karaduman sued. Although Karaduman was cleared of the drug charge in that there had been proven "substantial falsity" in the stories, there was no judgment against ''Newsday'' in that the story had not been grossly irresponsible.

Quotes about Karaduman

*"Four jurors showed up, all of them woman, all black. I learned a lot that day. They all told me that they were sure that Karaduman had been involved with drugs. They had believed Arras, but a number of them already had come to that view of Karaduman as they observed his own testimony. 'We could tell,' one of them told me, 'that you were worried that we would believe Karaduman. But we know drug dealers in

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, and we knew he was one.'"

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, '' Speaking Freely'', published by

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(2005), Page 150-151.

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