Azadiya Welat

Azadiya Welat (in English: Freedom of the Country) is a daily Kurdish newspaper that is published in Turkey.

History and profile

The paper was first published as a weekly newspaper with the name Welat in Istanbul on 22 February 1992.[1] In 1996 it began to be published with its current name, Azadiya Welat.[1] In 2003 the headquarters of the paper moved from Istanbul to Diyarbakır.[1] In 2006 it became a daily newspaper.[1]

Its editor-in-chief was sentenced to 3 years in prison in 2010.[2] A journalist who was distributing Azadiya Welat was murdered in 2014.[3]

Kurdish inmates in some Turkey jails were not allowed to receive the newspaper in 2007.[4] This interdiction is justified by a reference to the law no. 5275.[5] In 2015, the European Court of Human Rights rules the unpredictability of how the law is applied is a violation of article 10 of the Convention.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Non-Turkish language newspapers and minority press". European Stability Initiative. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Editor-in-chief of Turkish daily Azadiya Welat sentenced to three years in prison". WAN-IFRA. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  3. ↑ ""Azadiya Welat Dağıtımcısı Kadri Bağdu Öldürüldü" ("Kadri Bağdu, Journal distributed for Azadiya Welat, Killed")". Bianet. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  4. 1 2 Mesut Yurtsever et al vs Turkey, 20 January 2015.
  5. ↑ Law No. 5275 on the execution of penalties and security measures, 13 December 2004.

External links

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