A delegation of DEM Party MPs and DBP Co-Chair Keskin Bayındır visited RojNews headquarters in Sulaymaniyah to pay tribute to journalist Aziz Köylüoğlu who was killed by the Turkish state.
A delegation of the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) paid a condolence visit to the Rojnews agency headquarters in Sulaymaniyah for Aziz Köylüoğlu, a journalist who was martyred in a targeted drone attack by the Turkish state in Southern Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) on January 27.
The delegation included DBP Co-Chair Keskin Bayındır, DEM Party Foreign Relations Commission Co-Spokesperson Berdan Öztürk and DEM Party MP Gülcan Kaçmaz Sayyiğit.
“We firmly believe that the free press will make the martyrdom of its comrades a working principle and announce the truth more loudly,” Keskin Bayındır said during the visit.
Emphasizing the importance of the work by the free press, Bayındır added: “The free press has continued its efforts to convey the truth and national issues in all difficult times.”
Journalist Aziz Köylüoğlu lost his life as a result of a targeted attack by a Turkish UCAV (unmanned combat aerial vehicle) in the Ranya district of Sulaymaniyah province, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, on 27 January. The Kurdish journalist was laid to rest at the Binarê Qendîl Cemetery of Martyrs in the Qandil region on 14 February.
Born in 1976 in Amed (Diyarbakır), Köylüoğlu started his career in the early 2000s. From working as a reporter and cameraman to serving as an editor, news director, and finally as editor-in-chief, he worked at every level of journalism for many years. He reported from Hewlêr (Erbil) to Sulaymaniyah, Kirkuk (Kerkûk) to Maxmur, and from Derik in Northern and Eastern Syria to Afrin (Efrîn) for newspapers, agencies, TV stations and digital media.
