Pelin Ünker

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Pelin Ünker

Pelin Ünker (* 1983 or 1984) is a Turkish investigative journalist .

Life

Pelin Ünker studied economics at Istanbul University and obtained her bachelor's and master's degree in 2006. From 2008 to the end of 2018 she worked as a journalist for Cumhuriyet newspaper in the economic department. Ünker also translated the book Secret Wars of Carlos the Jackal into Turkish. In 2012 Ünker worked for Deutsche Welle in Berlin. She also published cartoons in the magazines Penguen , Fermuar, Uykusuz and also in Cumhuriyet.

Act

Ünker was involved in the Pulitzer Prize- winning research on the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers and researched the entanglements in Turkey. Among other things, she was able to uncover that Binali Yıldırım's sons had founded five offshore companies in Malta to avoid taxation , which the Turkish state gave millions of dollars in benefits. She was able to point out similar entanglements for the Erdoğans family. Binali Yıldırım and his sons then reported Ünker for defamation. On January 8, 2019, Ünker was sentenced in Turkey to a prison term of 13 months and 15 days and a fine of 8,600 Turkish lira (1,360 euros). The sentence has not been suspended. The representative of the OSCE , Harlem Désir , protested in a letter against the judgment. Also Recep Tayyip Erdogan's son-Minister Berat Albayrak , refunded Papers complaint against Ünker because of the publications from the Paradise; the hearing of this second case was scheduled for February 21, 2019.

In April 2019 she presented her work at the conference DARK HAVENS: Confronting Hidden Money and Power of the Disruption Network Lab in Berlin during the panel SILENCED BY POWER: Anti-corruption Journalists and Whistleblowers Facing Violence and Persecution . In March and May 2019, both pending legal proceedings were canceled.

Ünker is a member of the International Network of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ One of the last investigative journalists in Turkey. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 6, 2018, accessed on January 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Bülent Mumay: In prison for the best research. Frankfurter Allgemeine , January 16, 2019, accessed on January 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Imprisonment for Turkish journalist: "The price for good journalism". Retrieved January 19, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Turkey: Journalist Pelin Ünker given prison sentence for "Paradise Papers" reports. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ OSCE Representative expresses alarm following court sentence against Pelin Ünker, urges Turkey not to prosecute journalist for her investigative work. OSCE , January 10, 2019, accessed on January 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Disruption Network Lab conference - DARK HAVENS: Confronting Hidden Money and Power. April 5, 2019, accessed July 11, 2019 .
  7. ^ Turkey: acquittal for journalist Pelin Ünker. March 28, 2019, accessed July 11, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Turkish court lifts journalist Pelin Ünker's prison sentence. May 7, 2019, accessed July 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ünker, Pelin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish investigative journalist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1984