Doğan Özgüden

Doğan Özgüden (born 1936 in Kalecik, Ankara) is a Turkish journalist and publisher. A former editor of Akşam (1964–1966), he has been based in Belgium since 1974, having left Turkey after the 1971 military coup under threat of over 300 years in prison for his publications.

Career Özgüden worked at a variety of Turkish newspapers from 1952 to 1964, before becoming editor-in-chief of Turkish daily newspaper Akşam (1964–1966). A member of the Workers Party of Turkey (TIP), he was elected to the party's central committee in 1964. After the banning of Ant by the junta of the 1971 military coup, its editors Özgüden and Tugsavul organized in Europe, founding Info-Türk in Brussels in 1974. The founders were charged with over 50 opinion-related crimes for articles written or published in Ant, and were stripped of their Turkish nationality in 1984. On the occasion of the award, IFEX said that Info-Türk had "tackled many subjects considered taboo in Turkey, including anti-Semitism and the question of the Armenian Genocide."