Kadri Gürsel

[6] During his time working for Agence France-Presse, PKK terrorists kidnapped him and released him 26 days later.

[7] He later joined the Milliyet publishing group in 1997 as the vice editor-in-chief of Arti Haber, a weekly news magazine.

[6] In 2007, he started writing columns for Milliyet, but was fired that same year for a tweet critical of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Turkey, after the explosion in Suruç.

[8] On March 31, 1995, while working as the Agence French-Presse's Istanbul correspondent, Gürsel and Reuters photographer Fatih Sarıbaş were captured for 26 days by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

[9] The book provides a firsthand account of the PKK, a militant left-wing group that supports Kurdish nationalism and violently opposes the Turkish government.

[9] The Vienna-based International Press Institute reacted by calling for Gürsel and other journalists to be released as soon as possible.

[12] On this day, 200 people gathered outside Istanbul's Cagalyan Courthouse carrying portraits of the jailed journalist and banners with slogans.

[2] On October 28, 2017 (a month after Gürsel's release), 200 people marched in Istanbul against the imprisonment of journalists.