Yavuz Baydar

{{Short description|Turkish journalist}}

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| known_for = Editor-in-chief of Ahval, co-founder of P24

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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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.journalismfestival.com/speaker/yavuz-baydar|title=Yavuz Baydar|website=Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-14}} 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.{{Cite web|last=Bozkurt|first=Abdullah|date=2020-01-29|title=Dozens of journalists named as terrorists and spies in criminal probe in Turkey|url=https://www.nordicmonitor.com/2020/01/dozens-of-journalists-named-as-terrorists-and-spies-in-a-criminal-probe-in-turkey/|access-date=2020-06-02|website=Nordic Monitor|language=en-US}}