Mustafa Balbay
Mustafa Ali Balbay is a journalist, writer and former Turkish MP. As the main political correspondent in Ankara for the left-wing Kemalist daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, he wrote a regular column called Gözlem which he took over from the prominent investigative journalist Ugur Mumcu, who was assassinated in 1993. Balbay was arrested on March 5, 2009 as an Ergenekon suspect in the Odatv case, and in August 2009 he was sentenced to 34 years and eight months.
8 August 1960
Born on the same birth date (8 August 1960): Ulrich Maly
Born on the same birth day (8 August): Alexander Watson (diplomat) • Emilie Mehl • Esther Hobart Morris • Godfrey Kneller • Leo Chiosso • Mohammad Wasim (coach) • Pat Noonan • Paul Taylor (cricketer, born 1964) • Ulrich Maly
Born in the same month (August 1960): Ashley Crow • Bernard Rose (director) • Chuck D • Collin Raye • Dale Ellis • David Duchovny • Dom Duff • Emma Samms • Fat Lever • Fred Roberts • Ivar Stukolkin • José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero • Mike LaValliere • Morten Andersen • Suzi Gardner • Tim Mayotte • Todd English • Tony MacAlpine • Ulrich Maly • Vali Ionescu