About Emin Çölaşan Emin Çölaşan (born 14 March 1942) is a Turkish investigative journalist whose daily column appeared in the country's internationally best-known and most influential mass-circulation newspaper, Istanbul-based Hürriyet, for 22 years, from 1985 to 2007. Due to his outspoken positions on sensitive domestic issues, he is considered one of the most controversial names in Turkey's written press and, since 2007, has continued his column in the lower-circulation Istanbul daily, Sözcü.