Arzu Geybullayeva

Reporter

Arzu Geybulla, is Azerbaijani columnist and journalist, with special focus in human rights and press freedom in Azerbaijan.

She has written for Al Jazeera, Open Democracy, Eurasianet, Foreign Policy Democracy Lab, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, Meydan TV, Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso and regular contributor to citizen journalism platform Global Voices. She is the recipient of the 2014 Vaclav Havel Journalism Fellowship with the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. She was featured on BBC 100 Women Changemakers in 2014. She was Central Asia Azerbaijan Program Fellow at George Washington University in 2016. Arzu currently lives in Istanbul.

Turkey ended 2016 in mental paralysis, and is likely to stay that way

2016 was no easy year for Turkey. While the authorities continued pressing down on freedoms, a failed military putsch had Ankara introduce state of emergency, that has now been extended until summer of 2017. The state of emergency “gives the president and government the power to rule by decree, bypassing parliament and the potential to […]