WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will travel to Turkey this October to deliver a speech during the “New Media Order Conference” to be held in İstanbul, news reports said on Tuesday.
Assange will deliver a speech at the conference, scheduled to be held at the Lütfü Kırdar Convention Center in İstanbul. The conference will also host Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wales will give a speech on the topic of the democratization of knowledge. The conference is slated for Oct. 5.
WikiLeaks and Assange sparked an international uproar last year when it published a secret helicopter video showing a US attack that killed two Reuters journalists in Baghdad. It went on to release hundreds of thousands of secret US military files on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it later began publishing classified US diplomatic cables whose revelations angered and embarrassed the US and its allies.
The furor made Assange, 39, a global celebrity. The nomadic Australian was arrested in London in December after Sweden issued a warrant on rape and molestation accusations. He was later released on bail.