News Center- The Istanbul Chamber of Medicine (İTO) has announced the winners of the 2024 Sevinç Özgüner Human Rights, Peace and Democracy Award. The award has been granted to journalist Dicle Müftüoğlu, Co-Chair of the Dicle Fırat Journalists Association and editor of Mesopotamia Agency (MA), who was sent to prison on May 3, 2023, World Press Freedom Day, and released from prison on February 29, 2024 after being held in pre-trial detention for 10 months.

The award has also been granted to İlhan Sami Çomak, who has been held in prison since 1994 without a fair trial, and the Akbelen resistance against the deforestation of the Akbelen Forest by a coal mine project.

The award ceremony will be held on May 23, 2024.

The Istanbul Chamber of Medicine (İTO) has been granting the “Sevinç Özgüner Human Rights, Peace and Democracy Award” in memory of Sevinç Özgüner, a dentist and member of the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) who was killed in an armed attack on May 23, 1980.