Access to Jin News blocked for 32nd time

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The Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) has blocked access to Jin News, a woman-focused news outlet available in four languages.

Access to the site has been blocked by an order of the Diyarbakır 1st Penal Judgeship of Peace on May 21, 2021.

In line with this decision, The Information Technologies and Communications Authority (BTK) has blocked access to JinNews' websites.

You can now access the news agency on jinnews31.xyz.

With a team of women editors and reporters, JinNews ("woman news" in Kurdish) exclusively focuses on women's issues. It is published in five languages: Turkish, Kurdish, Zaza language, English and Arabic.

It was founded on September 25, 2017, with the slogan, "On the path to truth, with women's pen."

Safiye Alağaş, the news director of the website, was awarded the International Prize for Journalism by the Italy-based Maria Grazia Cutuli Onlus Foundation.

JinNews succeeds outlets that were shut down upon statutory decrees (KHK). The JİNHA, which had defined itself as the "first women's news agency in Turkey," was shut down on October 29, 2016, upon Statutory Decree no. 675. The "Gazete Şûjin," founded in December 2016, was shut down on August 25, 2017, upon Statutory Decree no. 693. (SO/VK)