ahmet hüsrev altan (born 2 march 1950) is a turkish journalist and author. he was a night shift reporter to editor in chief in various newspapers. he worked for the newspapers "hürriyet", "milliyet" and "radikal". in 2007 he became the founding editor-in-chief and lead columnist of "taraf", a daily turkish newspaper, and remained in the position until his resignation in december 2012.