Kamil Maman

Kamil Maman is a Turkish journalist working in exile from Canada, originally a writer for the daily newspaper Bugün until it was seized by the Turkish government in 2015. In connection with the seizure, Maman was arrested and subject to torture by Turkish police. In Turkish media, all of which is more or less controlled by the state, he has been termed a "fugitive" as well as a "terrorist" and it has been claimed he is a member of the Gülen movement. In 2018, his Patreon account was terminated after the Turkish government had threatened the San Francisco-based company to block the entire site in the country.