Famous journalist dies in Turkey

Yurtsan Atakan, who was widely perceived as the man responsible for establishing and popularizing technology journalism in Turkey, died yesterday night, aged 49.
 
"He died in peace and without pain," Atakan's widow Lale Atakan told daily Hürriyet, where the scribe worked for many years. "He was a very good person, an angel. He loved journalism, he wouldn't want to do antyhing but journalism", she said in tears. 
 
Atakan had been undergoing cancer treatment in the United States for some time and was forced last month to stop writing his column in daily Akşam, his latest post in a career that spanned more than two decades and nearly a dozen positions in different media outlets in Turkey.