Yavuz Baydar | |
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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]