Hamza Aktan

Hamza Aktan is a Kurdish journalist and writer. He was born in Hakkari's Gever (Yuksekova) district, Turkey in 1983, graduated from Yuksekova Lisesi, later studied journalism in Istanbul at Marmara University and law at Cyprus' Near East University. He is the author of a book titled "Kürt Vatandaş" (The Kurdish Citizen). He has worked for several Turkish daily, weekly or monthly publications including Bianet, Birgun, Post Express, Nokta, Yeni Safak, Toplumsal Tarih and IMC TV as correspondent, editor and lastly as news director. He also has contributed to some other Turkish publications including Birikim, haysiyet.com, Radikal.