Kamil Maman is a Turkish journalist working in exile from Canada, originally a writer for the daily newspaper

Bugün ''Bugün'' () was a Turkish daily newspaper. It was established in 2005. Columnists and journalists working for it have included Cengiz Çandar, Ahmet Almaz, Toktamış Ateş and Kamil Maman. ''Bugün'' was founded in January 2003 as ''Dünde ...

until it was seized by the Turkish government in 2015. In connection with the seizure, Maman was arrested and subject to torture by Turkish police. In 2018, his

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account was terminated after the Turkish government had threatened the San Francisco-based company to block the entire site in the country. Turkish media often refers to him as being sympathetic to the

Gülen movement The Gülen movement () or Hizmet movement () is an Islamist fraternal movement. It is a sub-sect of Sunni Islam based on a Nursian theological perspective as reflected in Fethullah Gülen's religious teachings. It is referred to by its membe ...

, a "fugitive", and a "terrorist".

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