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Turkish journalist
Yavuz Baydar
Yavuz Baydar, 2014
NationalityTurkish
OccupationJournalist
Known forEditor-in-chief of Ahval, co-founder of P24

Yavuz Baydar is the Editor-in-Chief of Ahval, an online news site published in English, Turkish and Arabic. Baydar is a Turkish journalist, blogger and an activist for media freedom and independence.

Baydar has lived outside Turkey since the 2016 failed Turkish coup d'etat. According to NordicMonitor, "Dozens of Turkey’s leading journalists and academics were the subject of criminal investigations on fabricated allegations of terrorism" following the 2016 failed coup, including Baydar.

Awards

Over the years, Baydar was given several awards: In 2018, the prestigious 'Journalistenpreis' by the (Munich-based) SüdostEuropa Gesellschaft in Germany.

In 2014, he was delivered the Special Award by the European Press Prize for his censored criticism of the daily paper Sabah's Gezi Park protests. He received the Morris B Abram Human Rights Award by UN Watch in 2017.

References

  1. "Yavuz Baydar". Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
  2. Bozkurt, Abdullah (2020-01-29). "Dozens of journalists named as terrorists and spies in criminal probe in Turkey". Nordic Monitor. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  3. "Yavuz Baydar". MEO. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
  4. "The Special Award 2014". European Press Prize. Retrieved 2020-05-28.

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