Journalist and ANF Director Osman Kılıç passed away on Thursday in a hospital in the Dutch town of Tiel after a serious illness. Kılıç had been receiving medical treatment for lung cancer for more than two years. Despite his severe illness, he continued his journalistic work during this time. He was 56 years old.
Osman Kılıç was born in 1968 in the district of Kurtalan in Siirt province and grew up in a politically engaged family. At a young age, he had to migrate to Europe and eventually settled in the Netherlands, where he came into contact with Kurdish political and cultural circles and took part in their activities.
Since the mid-1990s, Kılıç had been active in the free Kurdish press. In the following decades, he worked in various areas of media activity and was involved in the establishment of several Kurdish media projects. He also played an important role in the founding and development of the television channels MED TV and Medya TV, which were among the central media platforms of the Kurdish movement in the 1990s and early 2000s. Later, he assumed the leadership of the ANF news agency.
Details regarding the date and place of the funeral were not initially announced. His relatives stated that the relevant information will be released at a later time.
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