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Avni Özgürel

Mehmet Avni Özgürel (born 1948, in Ankara) is a Turkish journalist, author and screenwriter. He was writing for the newspaper ''Radikal''. According to ''Today's Zaman'', he is "known for his close ties to Turkey's National Intelligence Organization". He has interviewed Murat Karayılan of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

He is the screenwriter of the 2007 Turkish film ''Zincirbozan'', on the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, ''Sultan Avrupa'da'' (2009), on Sultan Abdülaziz's 1867 trip to Europe; and of the 2010 ''Mahpeyker: Kösem Sultan'', on Kösem Sultan. He is the screenwriter and producer of 2014 Turkish film ''Darbe'', on the February 7, 2012 Turkish intelligence crisis.

In 2013 he was appointed a member of the 63-member Committee of Wise Men convened to assist the Turkish-Kurdish solution process. Provided by Wikipedia