Yavuz Baydar Explained

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.

External links

Notes and References

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

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