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Medya News is a news agency founded in August 2020, incoporated in Italy but with staff based throughout Europe and Turkey{{Cite web |last=https://medyanews.net |date=2020-08-21 |title=Impressum |url=https://medyanews.net/impressum |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=Medya News |language=en-US}}. The website reports on Kurdish “news, events, activities and initiatives”{{Cite web |last=https://medyanews.net |date=2020-01-21 |title=About us |url=https://medyanews.net/about-us |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=Medya News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Did Turkey use chemical weapons in northern Iraq? |url=https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-689654 |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en-US}}, and has been described as a “pro-Kurdish” and “Kurdish- focused” news outlet.{{Cite web |last=Ahval |first= |date=8 October, 2022 |title=Turkish intelligence chief’s frequent Iraq visits raise questions |url=https://ahvalnews.com/hakan-fidan/turkish-intelligence-chiefs-frequent-iraq-visits-raise-questions}}
Its reporting has been cited by the Daily Mirror{{Cite web |last=Hagan |first=Rachel |date=2022-08-04 |title=Mass graves still being discovered eight years on from horrific ISIS genocide |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mass-graves-still-being-discovered-27651654 |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=mirror |language=en}}, France24, the Jerusalem Post and other Western news outlets.{{Cite web |title=Did Turkey use chemical weapons in northern Iraq? |url=https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-689654 |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=https://www.facebook.com/FRANCE24 |date=2022-07-07 |title=Otan : qui sont les "terroristes" réclamés par la Turquie à la Finlande et à la Suède ? |url=https://www.france24.com/fr/europe/20220707-otan-qui-sont-les-terroristes-r%C3%A9clam%C3%A9s-par-la-turquie-%C3%A0-la-finlande-et-%C3%A0-la-su%C3%A8de |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=France 24 |language=fr}} Regular contributors include leading Western commentators on the Kurdish issue such as Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink and Michael M Gunter, ‘the doyen of Kurdish political studies in the United States’{{Cite web |title=struggles |url=https://frederikegeerdink.com/struggles/ |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=Fréderike Geerdink |language=en-US}}, along with leading Kurdish and European politicians such as People’s Democratic Party President Ertuğrul Kürkçü and Norway’s Erling Folkvord.{{Cite web |last=solidaritetmedkurdistan |date=2022-05-07 |title=Erling Folkvord med kronikk i Medya News |url=https://solidaritetmedkurdistan.no/2022/05/07/erling-folkvord-med-kronikk-i-medya-news-pa-engelsk/ |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=Solidaritet med Kurdistan |language=nb-NO}}{{Cite web |last=Gunter |first=Michael M. |title=Kurdistan faces new attacks |url=https://medyanews.net/author/michael-m-gunter |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=Medya News |language=en-US}}
The website has been targeted by the Turkish authorities, which blocked access to medyanews.net in November 2022.{{Cite web |last=medya |first=eylul |date=2022-11-02 |title=Overcome the blockade and access Medya News in Turkey |url=https://medyanews.net/overcome-the-blockade-and-access-medya-news-in-turkey/ |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=Medya News |language=en-US}} The head of the Turkish Medical Association, Sebnem Korur Fincanci, was detained on terror charges following remarks reported by Medya News in which she criticized government policy.{{Cite web |date=2022-10-26 |title=Turkey detains head of medical association on terror charges - Al-Monitor: Independent, trusted coverage of the Middle East |url=https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/10/turkey-detains-head-medical-association-terror-charges |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=www.al-monitor.com |language=en}}