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Can Dündar, Erdoğan the new sultan

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The journalist Can Dündar publishes the graphic novel “Erdogan, the new sultan”, with Delcourt editions in the Encrages collection.

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By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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A fierce defender of freedom of expression, the Turkish journalist Can Dündar was sentenced to 27 years in prison in his country.

Exiled to Berlin, he now publishes a drawn biography of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. 

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Can Dündar now lives in exile in Berlin, under high protection.

Threatened with death, sentenced in Turkey to 27 years in prison for having revealed an arms traffic coordinated by the Turkish services to Islamist factions in Syria, this Turkish journalist is also a fervent opponent of the regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Several times distinguished for his work as a journalist and his defense of freedom of expression,

publishes a drawn biography of the man who has been at the head of Turkey for almost 8 years.

“Erdoğan, the new sultan” is a comic strip published by Delcourt editions, in the encras collection.

On the menu of this Café Gourmand:

• Fanny Bleichner

  went to visit the "Re-creation" exhibition at the Blachère Foundation in Apt

• Marjorie Bertin

  saw the play

  Le fabulous destin d'Amadou Hampaté Bâ

   as part of Africapitales at the Goutte d'Or

• Muriel Maalouf

  went to Brussels for the PhotoBrussels Photography Festival.

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