Can Dundar. Turkey has offered almost $30,000 for information leading to the journalist's capture. "That's not big money. I was expecting something really spectacular," he says. Credit: Joel Saget / AFPGovernment officials and underworld figures alike have targeted Can Dündar for reporting on Ankara's covert weapons shipments to Syrian rebels. His encounter with a would-be assassin produced an incredible scoop07:27 PM • June 26 2026 IDTOn May 28, 2015, Can Dündar, editor-in-chief of the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, found himself holding a hot potato: photographs proving that Turkey had supplied arms to jihadist rebels in Syria. Before publishing the explosive story, he gathered the paper's staff and asked whether they understood the likely consequences. They said they did. Dündar then spoke with each person individually. One by one, they confirmed that they were prepared to face whatever came next.In the NewsA Turkish Reporter Fled Erdogan's Grip. Then He Met the Hitman Sent to Kill HimSettler Indicted Over West Bank Rampage That Left Eight Palestinians WoundedIn Latest Poll, Netanyahu's Likud Gains Seat as Bennett's Decline ContinuesDeclassified Records Reveal How Israel Launched Its 'Boldest Operation Ever'Israeli FM Pushes Armenian Genocide Recognition as Tensions With Turkey EscalateRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIAs the World Watched Gaza, Israeli Settlers Charged Ahead in the West Bank. A Clash Is ImminentWhere Does Andy Burnham Stand on Israel and Palestine?Report: Netanyahu 'Likely' to Sabotage Iran Deal, U.S. Officials Tell TrumpThe IDF's Russian Roulette in Lebanon Continues – and No One Can Explain WhyShin Bet and IDF Planned to Warn Netanyahu Before Oct. 7. Mossad Head RefusedTrump's Threats to 'Blow the Shit' Out of Iran Strain First Round of Truce Talks