The mafia boss, the president, and me: an investigation by Can Dundar

The mafia boss, the president, and me: an investigation by Can Dundar


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Ven 11 aprile 2025

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17:35 - 18:00

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Can Dündar was until 2016 editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet and one of the most famous journalists in Turkey. But after his revelation of weapons deliveries from Erdogan's Turkish secret service to Islamist rebels in Syria, he was forced to flee into exile to Germany.
In Berlin he continued to work. He is a member of the panel of judges of the European Press Prize. But he is also still an investigative journalist.
In his latest documentary The Mafia Boss, The President, and Me, he was able to report on a notorious criminal and former supporter of President Erdogan who changed sides and reported on the involvement of senior government figures and state employees in criminal activities such as corruption, drug smuggling and extrajudicial killings. Can himself was one of the targets of the Turkish mobster; he had promised to “take a shower“ in Can's blood. The documentary was aired on Germany's ARD channel.
David Schraven will interview Can on the question how to survive in exile and still conduct important investigations. He will ask him about the importance and hurdles of such work, and how he is able to work in exile with the biggest news organisations in the world.


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Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo
Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo

Il Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo di Perugia è un evento annuale che riunisce professionisti dei media, esperti di comunicazione e appassionati di informazione da tutto il mondo. Si svolge nel centro storico di Perugia e offre conferenze, dibattiti, workshop e opportunità di networking sui temi più rilevanti del giornalismo contemporaneo.

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Can Dundar
Can Dundar

Can Dündar is a multiple award-winning Turkish journalist, author and documentary-maker. He was editor-in-chief of the centre-left Cumhuriyet newspaper until August 2016, has more than 20 books to his name and was sentenced in absentia to 27 years in prison after publishing a story on Turkish intelligence’s arms trafficking to Syrian radical Islamists. President Erdogan accused him of revealing state secrets and demanded a life sentence. After being arrested in 2015, spending three months in jail, and surviving an assassination attempt, Dündar fled his home country and settled in Germany. Now, Can is editor-in-chief of the bilingual journalistic platform Özgürüz, a columnist for Die Zeit and a member of the jury of the European Press Prize. He is a recipient of many awards, including the Reporters Without Borders’ Human Rights Award and was honoured as European Journalist of the Year in 2017 as part of the Prix Europa. In November 2016 he received the Committee to Protect Journalists International Press Freedom Award.

David Schraven
David Schraven

David Schraven leads the non-profit investigative newsroom CORRECTIV as Publisher. After spending time at taz and Süddeutsche Zeitung, he worked as a freelance journalist in the business and North Rhine-Westphalia departments of the Welt-group. While working as a guest journalist for Time Magazine, David was in New York on September 11th when the towers fell. He also founded the political blog Ruhrbarone. Between 2010 and 2014 David was in charge of the research department at the Content Desk of Funke-Mediengruppe (WAZ/NRZ/WR/WP). David received the Wächterpreis der Tagespresse award for his investigation of the PFT-poison scandal at the Ruhr. He was awarded the Research Prize of the Swiss Wolfgang-Fichtner-Foundation for his work on fraud allegations against former state secretary Zülfiye Kaykin. His report on the German military’s Afghanistan mission Kriegszeiten (Wartimes) was nominated for the German Youth Literature Award. His graphic report on right-wing terrorism Weisse Wöl...