Yavuz Baydar, Author at Index on Censorship

Yavuz Baydar

Yavuz Baydar is the co-founder of Platform for Independent Journalism (P24), an initiative to support and promote editorial independence in the Turkish press. He is a veteran Turkish columnist and blogger and was awarded the Special Award of the European Press Prize in 2014.

Hacks, hacking and propaganda: what’s happening to Turkey’s journalists?

by Yavuz Baydar | 29 Nov 2013

Turkey’s media proprietors seem all too willing to play along with practices that make the country feel like a corrupt central Asian republic, says Yavuz Baydar

Turkey’s media: A polluted landscape

by Yavuz Baydar | 25 Jul 2013

As protests continue in Istanbul, journalist Yavuz Baydar calls for the media to resist government pressure to filter the news

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