Rahîm Er
Rahîm Er (born in 1950 in Harput, Elazığ, Turkey) is a Turkish author and lawyer. He is currently the chairman of the board of BKY-Babıali Kültür Yayıncılığı A.Ş, a publishing company based in İstanbul and also the owner of Haber Kuşağı (haberkusagi.com), an online Turkish newspaper.
Biography
After graduating from Adana Erkek Lisesi in 1969, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of İstanbul University in 1974. He is a member of the İstanbul Bar Association and the Union of Turkish Bar Associations. In 1970 he joined Türkiye daily newspaper and started to write daily columns. Er was the founding general managers of Türkiye Çocuk, weekly magazine for children; TGRT, a national Turkish television channel which was bought by Fox Broadcasting Company and changed to its current name Fox; and İhlas Databank which was changed to its current name ihlas.net, one of the first internet service providers in Turkey. He hosted television and radio programs on TGRT and TGRT FM from 1996.
Rahîm Er is the author of books entitled Sevgili Peygamberim, İmparatorluk Coğrafyasında Diplomasi Koşturmak, Örsteki Ülke Türkiye, and Hayatın Rengi İnsan. He currently has a column which is entitled Entellektüel Boyut (English: Intellectual Dimension) in Türkiye daily newspaper.
In the year of 2008, Er was prosecuted within controversial Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code because of his opinions criticising the Court of Cassation of Turkey. Even though he was criticising the Court of Cassation because of the length of trials, heavy backlog, and its hidden resistance to the establishment of regional courts of appeals in Turkey, Er was charged with insulting an institution of the Republic of Turkey by chief public prosecutor's office in Bakırköy. However, since a series of changes were made on the Article 301 on April 30, 2008, including a new amendment which makes it obligatory to get the approval of the minister of justice to file a case, this prosecution was stroke out by the dismissal of the minister of justice.
References
- Biyografi.net - Biography of Rahîm Er