Program

For three days, journalists will meet other knowledgeable mediators of information from different regions of the world in Innsbruck. In conversations with colleagues and other experts, visitors find out what is going on behind the scenes of the information on international events, which is often hastily and superficially conveyed, and can contribute.

Current social, political and cultural developments are the focus of the debates, from book presentations, exhibitions, doc-films and audio features. The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

Treibhaus, Tower

Can Dündar:

“I met my murderer”

Conversation

“I was ordered to kill you.” I am ready to tell you everything I know.” These were the lines of a letter sent to Turkish journalist Can Dündar living in exile in Berlin at the end of 2020. The sender: Serkan Kurtuluş, a Turkish prisoner being held in Buenos Aires. It was Turkish intelligence that tasked Kurtuluş with the hit. As editor-in-chief of the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet in 2015, Dündar had covered arms shipments from Turkish intelligence to ISIS and other extremist groups in Syria. He was accused of espionage and held in pre-trial detention until the country’s highest court ordered his release after three months. Following an attack against him, Dündar managed to leave the country for Germany shortly after. He was sentenced in absentia to more than 27 years in prison.
In 2023, Can Dündar visited his would-be assassin in prison. He told him about further machinations. Dündar uncovered a network of autocratic, but also democratic, governments and ties to organised crime and terrorist organisations.

Can Dündar
Journalist, Author, Documentary Filmmaker

In conversation with
Alexandra Föderl-Schmid
France Correspondent for German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung

English and German with simultaneous interpretation

Free admission

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Die Mitwirkenden

Wir freuen uns auf Journalist*innen, Wissenschaftler*innen und NGOs aus verschiedenen Regionen der Welt.

Die Schauplätze

Die Veranstaltungsorte des Festivals liegen im Zentrum von Innsbruck. Sie sind zu Fuß gut zu erreichen.

Info

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