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Type of site | Digital Media |
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| Available in | English, Arabic, Turkish |
| Editor | Yavuz Baydar Ghassan Ibrahim |
| URL | ahvalnews |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | 2017 |
Content license | Copyright |
Ahval is an Emirati-funded online news website that solely reports on Turkey. The site was launched in 2017.[1] Turkish journalist Yavuz Baydar is the current editor-in-chief. The name Ahval means "events" and is a Turkish Arabism derivation from "ahwal".[2]
In February 2018, Ahval was blocked by the Turkish government for users in Turkey.[3] In an interview with observatoireturquie.fr, Baydar stated that the site has 230,000 daily visitors.[4]
Talking to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, Baydar said that the creation of Ahval aimed "to fill a gap caused by media bans and self-censorship in Turkey."[5]
The (English language) pages do not show any new articles since early November 2022.
- ^ "Ahval, an independent news source on Turkey, makes debut". AW. 11 May 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
qantarawas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Turkey bans access to critical Ahval news website". Observatorio Electoral (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-11.
- ^ "Le journal Ahval. Un phénomène du journalisme turc en ligne?". Observatoire de la Turquie Contemporaine. 2020-02-16. Archived from the original on 2020-05-18. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
- ^ Schlötzer, Christiane. "Türkische Journalisten - Die Lücke im Land". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-05-23.