Bianet

Bianet
Founded2000
Typenews agency
Legal statusActive
Official language
Turkish, English, Kurdish[1]
Websitewww.bianet.org

Bianet (acronym for Turkish: Bağımsız İletişim Ağı, lit. '"Independent Communication Network"') is an Independent[2] news agency based in Beyoğlu, Istanbul.[3] Focused on human rights in Turkey it is mainly funded by a Swedish organization.[4] Bianet was established in January 2000 by journalists around Nadire Mater [tr], former representative of Reporters Without Borders, and left-wing activist Ertuğrul Kürkçü[5] and is tied with Inter Press Service. It is mostly funded by the European Commission through the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR).[5] Erol Önderoğlu served as the monitoring editor for Bianet for several years. His work for Bianet included quarterly reports on free speech in Turkey.[6] A 2022 study said that it partly followed the principles of citizen journalism.[7] It is active on social media.[8]

In collaboration with EIDHR and KAOS GL, an association that focuses on LGBT rights in Turkey, Bianet organized workshops between 2016 and 2018 in various cities concerning gender specific language in the mass media in Turkey.[9]

  1. ^ Ataman, Duygu (2018-05-14), Bianet: A Parallel News Corpus in Turkish, Kurdish and English, arXiv:1805.05095
  2. ^ "Turkish outcry at murder of young woman has been a long time coming". The Guardian. 2015-02-24. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
  3. ^ "About us". Bianet. Archived from the original on 1 June 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Turkish court lifts block on foreign-backed monitoring group website". Reuters. 2019-08-08. Archived from the original on 2023-05-13. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  5. ^ a b "Bianet: Independent, Alternative Journalism". Bianet. Archived from the original on 6 October 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  6. ^ "Erol Önderoglu, Turkey's tireless free speech advocate". Reporters Without Borders. 21 June 2016. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  7. ^ Olkun, Emre Osman; Nurlanova, Altynai (2022-09-30). "Kirgizi̇stan ve Türki̇ye Alternati̇f Medyasinda Yurttaş Gazeteci̇li̇ği̇ Karşilaştirmasi: Azattyk ve Bi̇anet Örneği̇" [Comparison of Citizen Journalism in Alternative Media in Kyrgyzstan and Turkey: Case study of Azattyk and Bianet]. Türkiye Medya Akademisi Dergisi (in Turkish). 2 (4). ISSN 2791-6014.
  8. ^ Gürsoy, Dilek (2020-03-05). Transmediality in Independent Journalism: The Turkish Case. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-06085-0.
  9. ^ "Gender-Based Journalism Handbook and Online Library Project". EU Delegation to Turkey. Archived from the original on 2023-02-27. Retrieved 2020-09-01.