Turkish Journalist Shot Dead Amid Corruption Probe

Date: 20 February 2022 - 21:33

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ANKARA (Middle East Eye) – A journalist was shot and killed outside the offices of his newspaper in northwest Turkey on Saturday, police and local media reported. Gungor Arslan, the director and chief editor of the local daily Ses Kocaeli (The Voice of Kocaeli) was shot and seriously wounded, dying in the city hospital soon after. Local police said they had arrested a suspect but did not identify him or give any details of the attack. Erol Onderoglu, the Turkish representative of Paris-based media rights group Reporters without Borders (RSF) told AFP that Arslan had been investigating corruption in the city.