Longtime Defense News Turkey correspondent Burak Bekdil dies at 57《防务新闻》土耳其分社资深记者布拉克·贝克迪尔去世，享年57岁。
Burak Ege Bekdil had a decades-long career in journalism, writing about political developments and national security issues in Turkey and the wider region.
Longtime Defense News contributor journalist Burak Ege Bekdil died in an Ankara hospital following surgery complications after a prior motorbike accident, according to family and colleagues in Turkey.
Bekdil had a decades-long career in journalism, writing for Turkish outlets on politics and international relations, as well as English-language defense publications such as Defense News, where his bylines go back to 1997.
According to an Oct. 22 obituary in Hürriyet Daily News , where he worked as a reporter and columnist starting in the 1990s, he also served as Ankara bureau chief for the now-defunct CNBC-e television channel in the early 2000s.
Bekdil was featured in a 2002 article from Deutschlandfunk, a German news radio station, which reported that his beliefs about free speech had landed him in hot water with the authorities at the time.
His reporting for Defense News married a deep knowledge of regional geopolitics with a knack for well-sourced news, composed in the artful tone of a writer accustomed to the peculiarities of political life in the NATO member state. His story on how Russia was sending a clear message to Turkey when it bombed the Ukrainian business Motor Sich, which makes engines for Turkish aircraft, has been among this year’s most read stories, Mike Gruss, editor-in-chief of Sightline Media Group, which publishes Defense News, wrote in a note to staff.
The story examined the fallout from a strike on a potential supplier to the growing Turkish-Ukrainian defense industry ties.
据土耳其的家人和同事透露，长期为《国防新闻》撰稿的记者布拉克·埃格·贝克迪尔（Burak Ege Bekdil）在安卡拉一家医院因先前摩托车事故后的手术并发症去世。
贝克迪尔从事新闻工作数十年，曾为土耳其媒体撰写有关政治和国际关系的文章，也曾为《国防新闻》等英文国防刊物撰稿，他的署名文章最早可追溯到 1997 年。
据《自由日报》10 月 22 日的讣告称，他从 20 世纪 90 年代开始在该报担任记者和专栏作家，并在 21 世纪初担任已停播的 CNBC-e 电视台安卡拉分社社长。
2002 年，德国新闻广播电台 Deutschlandfunk 的一篇文章报道了贝克迪尔，称他关于言论自由的信念当时让他与当局陷入了麻烦。
他在《防务新闻》上的报道，既展现了他对地区地缘政治的深刻理解，又体现了他善于搜集可靠新闻素材的技巧，并以一位熟悉北约成员国政治生活特点的作家特有的娴熟笔法撰写而成。据《防务新闻》的出版商Sightline Media Group的总编辑迈克·格鲁斯在给员工的一封信中写道，他关于俄罗斯轰炸为土耳其飞机生产发动机的乌克兰企业马达西奇公司，意在向土耳其发出明确信号的报道，是今年阅读量最高的文章之一。
这篇报道探讨了对一家潜在供应商的袭击所带来的后果，这家供应商与日益紧密的土耳其-乌克兰国防工业联系密切相关。