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Medya News is a news agency founded in August 2020, incoporated in Italy but with staff based throughout Europe and Turkey. The website reports on Kurdish “news, events, activities and initiatives”, and has been described as a “pro-Kurdish” and “Kurdish- focused” news outlet.

Its reporting has been cited by the Daily Mirror, France24, the Jerusalem Post and other Western news outlets. Regular contributors include leading Western commentators on the Kurdish issue such as Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink and Michael M Gunter, ‘the doyen of Kurdish political studies in the United States’, along with leading Kurdish and European politicians such as People’s Democratic Party President Ertuğrul Kürkçü and Norway’s Erling Folkvord.

The website has been targeted by the Turkish authorities, which blocked access to medyanews.net in November 2022. The head of the Turkish Medical Association, Sebnem Korur Fincanci, was detained on terror charges following remarks reported by Medya News in which she criticized government policy. https://medyanews.net/bans-on-speaking-kurdish-persist-in-cizre/ (first article)

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