Burak Bekdil was a Turkish columnist who wrote for the daily Hürriyet for 29 years. At the time of his death he was a Fellow at the Middle East Forum and had covered Turkey for the U.S. weekly Defense News since 1997. His articles were published in many international media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, the BBC, The Guardian, Reuters, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, the Toronto Star, the Financial Times, Le Figaro, ABC, El País, Stern, Al-Arabiya, etc.