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.

[1] 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.

[2] Over the years, Baydar was given several awards: In 2018, the prestigious 'Journalistenpreis' by the (Munich-based) SüdostEuropa Gesellschaft in Germany.

[3] In 2014, he was delivered the Special Award by the European Press Prize for his censored criticism of the daily paper Sabah's Gezi Park protests.