Alper Görmüş is an award-winning journalist. He regularly writes on media ethics for Taraf newspaper. He was prosecuted under Terror Law when he was managing editor at Aktuel weekly and sentenced to 3 months. Stayed in jail in 1996 for 3 months.

He lectured on “News analysis” at Istanbul Bilgi University Journalism School between 1999-2006.

His last position was Editor-in-Chief of Nokta weekly news magazine. Nokta faced pressures after revealing coup d’etat plans (April 2007). It closed when its owner surrendered under pressures. After closing down of Nokta Gormus became columnist at Taraf newspaper and Aktuel weekly news magazine.

Gormus won first International Hrant Dink Award for murdered journalist Hrant Dink. He also won “Best Columnist” award of Turkish Authors Association in 2009.