Dicle News Agency

Dicle News Agency
Dicle Haber Ajansı
IndustryNews agency
Founded4 April 2002[1]
HeadquartersBeyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
Websitehttp://dihaber.net

Dicle Haber Ajansı, DIHA (English: Dicle News Agency), is a "pro-Kurdish" news agency of Turkey.[2] In March 2012 Reporters without Borders reported that 27 of its journalists were in prison.[3] DIHA produces news reports on Turkish, Kurdish, and English[1]

DIHA had several times difficulties with the Turkish authorities and several of its journalists were arrested.[4][5] In March 2009, following the coverage of the Newroz festivals in Siirt, Abdurrahman Gök was arrested and charged with making propaganda on behalf of the Kurdistan Workers' Party.[6]

Between December 2015 and May 2016, 12 of its journalists were arrested.[7] Turkish authorities have blocked access to the website 40 times; the website changes its address every time it is blocked.[7] Following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, it was one of more than 150 news outlets shut down by the authorities.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b DIHA, About Us Archived 2014-01-09 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Committee to Protect Journalists, October 2012, Turkey's Press Freedom Crisis: 4. The Kurdish Cases
  3. ^ Reporters without Borders, 14 March 2012, Four journalists released but fight goes on for dozens still held Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Number of Arrested DİHA Correspondent Reaches 10". Bianet - Bagimsiz Iletisim Agi. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
  5. ^ "DİHA Reporter Arrested". Bianet - Bagimsiz Iletisim Agi. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
  6. ^ "PRESS FREEDOM: Journalist Released from Jail under "PKK Propaganda" Charges". Bianet - Bagimsiz Iletisim Agi. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
  7. ^ a b "Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of May 15". Committee to Protect Journalists. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  8. ^ "Torture returns to Turkey". The Economist. 7 September 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2017.

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