Yavuz Baydar

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.[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]

  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.