Mehmet Avni Özgürel (born 1948, in

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) is a Turkish journalist, author and screenwriter. He was writing for the newspaper ''

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''. According to ''

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'', he is "known for his close ties to Turkey's

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". He has interviewed Murat Karayılan of the

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(PKK). He is the screenwriter of the 2007 Turkish film ''

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'', on the

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, '' Sultan Avrupa'da'' (2009), on Sultan

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's 1867 trip to Europe; and of the 2010 '' Mahpeyker: Kösem Sultan'', on

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. He is the screenwriter and producer of 2014 Turkish film ''Darbe'', on the February 7, 2012 Turkish intelligence crisis. In 2013 he was appointed a member of the 63-member Committee of Wise Men convened to assist the Turkish-Kurdish solution process.

, 3 April 2013
Government reveals 63-member wise men list to advance settlement process

Books

* ''İşaret taşları'' (2001), Timas Publishing Group * ''Cumhuriyet ve din'' (2003), Ufuk Kitapları * ''Osmanlı'ya hasret topraklar'' (2005), Ufuk Yayınları * ''Ayrılıkçı hareketler: Ziya Gökalp'in Kürt Dosyası ekiyle (2006), Altın Kitaplar * ''Portreler galerisi : küllenen izler'' (2009), Etkileșim Yayınları * ''Osmanlı'dan Cumhuriyet'e iktidar oyunu'' (2009), Etkileşim Yayınları

References

External links

Özgürel at ''Radikal''
1948 births Living people 20th-century Turkish journalists Radikal (newspaper) people Journalists from Ankara Turkish male screenwriters 21st-century Turkish journalists {{Turkey-writer-stub