Yavuz Baydar

Yavuz Baydar
Yavuz Baydar
	Yavuz Baydar, 2014
Nationality	Turkish
Occupation	Journalist
Known for	Editor-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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Awards

Over the years, Baydar was given several awards: In 2018, the prestigious 'Journalistenpreis' by the (Munich-based) SüdostEuropa Gesellschaft in Germany.^[3]

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.^[4] He received the Morris B Abram Human Rights Award by UN Watch in 2017.

References

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

External links

Media related to Yavuz Baydar at Wikimedia Commons
Ahval News biography of Baydar - official webpage, English

[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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