Osman Okkan (*1947, Ankara) came to Germany in 1965, studied economics, sociology and political science at the University of Münster and worked as a producer at WDR until 2006. He continues to work as a documentary filmmaker (for ARTE, WDR, ZDF, among others), co-founding the KulturForum TürkeiDeutschland in 1993 and the Hrant Dink Forum in Cologne in 2009.