Mehmet Avni Özgürel (born 1948, in Ankara) is a Turkish journalist, author and screenwriter.
According to Today's Zaman, he is "known for his close ties to Turkey's National Intelligence Organization".
[1] He has interviewed Murat Karayılan of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
[6] In 2013 he was appointed a member of the 63-member Committee of Wise Men convened to assist the Turkish-Kurdish solution process.
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