Kamer Genç, outspoken and colorful muckraker[1], the former deputy from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) who had been battling with cancer, died on Friday at the age of 76.Mavi Boncuk |
Kamer Genç (February 23, 1940 – January 22, 2016) was a Turkish politician of Zaza origin. He was elected a member of parliament for the Republican People's Party in the 1987 and 1991 elections, for the True Path Party in the 1995 and 1999 elections, as an independent candidate in the 2007 elections, returning to the Republican People's Party on 1 June 2010, for which he was reelected in the 2011 elections.
[1] The term muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines. The modern term is investigative journalism, and investigative journalists today are often informally called "muckrakers."