Rohat Aktaş (ca. 1997 – February 24, 2016) a Turkish-Kurdish journalist and news editor for Azadiya Welat in the southeastern Turkish town Cizre, Şırnak Province, Turkey, was shot on January 22, disappeared on January 30, 2016, and discovered later dead. At the time, he was reporting about the armed confrontation between Kurdish separatists and Turkish forces, which is part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present).[1]