[mks_dropcap style="letter" size="52" bg_color="#ffffff" txt_color="#000000"]T[/mks_dropcap]he award for Turkish language category has been given to shuttered dihaber’s Deniz Tekin regarding the piece of news on “police getting caught on camera during house-raid”. Among the jury in Turkish category were Ayşe Yıldırım, Fatih Polat, Faruk Eren, İbrahim Varlı, Hüseyin Aykol. The jury on Kurdish news included Fehim Işık, Gülistan İke, Hatice Kamer, Semiha Alankuş, Ertuş Bozkurt, while women’s journalism jury consisted of Ayşe Düzkan, Burcu Karakaş, Mehveş Evin, Mekiye Görenç, Pınar Ural. Photography jury included experienced names such as Bülent Kılıç, Mustafa Seven, Nazmi Belge, Ramazan Öztürk, Sebati Karakurt, and the jury for caricature category had Gülay Batur, Halil İncesu, Rıdvan Bağış, Sefer Selvi, Doğan Güzel.

Jury Special Awards

Birgün Daily’s Erk Acarer, Evrensel Daily’s Eylem Nazlıer and diken.com.tr reporter Rıfat Doğan have been awarded Turkish news special award by the jury, while in Kurdish news Cihan Ölmez of shuttered dihaber was given the special award. Shuttered Gazete Sujin’s Şilan Özhan and Şehriban Aslan were awarded the special award in women’s category, and a news piece on Shingle attack in Iraq by late Nujiyan Erhan which was later complemented by Jinda Asmen upon Nujiyan’s death has been given the jury special award. The caricature award has been given to Musa Kart who is waiting for his trial as part of Cumhuriyet case. dihaber’s Abdurrahman Gök who had captured Kemal Kurkut’s shooting on the Newroz in Diyarbakır was given the photography award. Birgün’s Alican Altunbaş and AFP’s İlyas Akengin were also given jury special award. The awards will be handed over with a ceremony in Taksim Hill Hotel on September 21.