Three Turkish journalists awarded by EU body
ISTANBUL
Daily Hürriyet reporter Nurettin Kurt
The jury said the story’s “content has a unique value in terms of public debate. The concerned official returned the vehicle allocated for his use following public discussion brought about by this report.”
The best prize was awarded to Fatih Yağmur for his coverage of the story titled “Truck Report” published in news website Radikal on Jan. 3, 2014. The jury underscored Yağmur’s story as “highly relevant” as “it broke as an exclusive story when it first came out in 2014” and the subject matter – trucks owned by the country’s national intelligence agency that were laden with weapons and heading to Syria – continues to have repercussions.
“The story is the product of pure investigative journalism at the highest international standards,” it said.
Third place for the Best Investigative Report of 2014 went to Tahir Alperen for his report titled “Bullets that killed two police not fired from weapons belonging to four people shot dead,” published on t24.com.tr on Nov. 4, 2014.