Hawar News Agency

This article is about Syrian Kurdish news agency. For the Kurdish the magazine, see Hawar (magazine).
Hawar News Agency
Type of site
News
Available inArabic, English, Kurdish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
Area servedSyria
OwnerUnknown
Created byUnknown
EditorUnknown
URLhawarnews.com
AdvertisingYes
CommercialUnknown
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedAugust 2012; 12 years ago (2012-08)
Current statusActive

Hawar News Agency (sometimes abbreviated ANHA) (Kurdish: Ajansa Nûçeyên a Hawar; Arabic: وكالة أنباء هاوار) is a news agency.[1][2] The site started as an Arabic-only news service.[3] Hawar News is linked to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)[4] and its armed forces the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).[5]

Ownership, identity and reliability

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The ownership of the Hawar News Agency is unpublished. The website's domain name was first registered in August 2012.[6] The site's About page says just "ANHA".[7] Pro-Syrian opposition source Verify-sy claims Hawar News is affiliated with the Democratic Union Party (PYD).[8]

Attacks on staff

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A number of its journalists have been killed in the Syrian civil war.

In 2022, Issam Abdullah and others, including Stêrk TV [ku] worker Mohammed Jarada, were allegedly targeted during Turkish airstrikes in northern Syria. Abdullah was killed and Jarada injured.[4][9] The Committee to Protect Journalists called for Turkish authorities to swiftly investigate the events.[10]

Attack on Cîhan Bilgin and Nazim Daştan

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Cîhan Bilgin and Nazim Daştan were killed by a Turkish airstrike in December 2024 whilst working as freelancers for ANHA.[11][12] The attack was condemned by the Dicle Firat Journalists’ Union[13][11] and the Press Workers Union of Turkey.[11] In later protests on the issue, a number of their members were detained by Turkish police.[14][15] Turkish journalists and the leaders of the Istanbul Bar Association have subsequently faced criminal charges over their reporting of the airstrike.[16][17] Consequently the Turkish Journalists Union has called on the government to abandon state policies hostile to journalists.[18] The National Union of Journalists and International Federation of Journalists have both condemned the attack on Bilgin and Daştan and called for the Syrian transitional government to "carry out an independent investigation into these murders, as well as to identify and convict the perpetrators of these crimes".[19]

Blocking and interference

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The site has been repeatedly hacked in 2018[20], 2019[21], and 2022.[22][23]

The Turkish telecommunications regulator blocked access to several news agencies in July 2015.[24] The block followed the end of the Kurdish Turkish peace process[24] and was described as a counter-terrorism action. Other Kurdish language or left-wing news sites based within and outside Turkey that were banned at the same time as Hawar News included Rudaw, Dicle News Agency, and Özgür Gündem.[24]

References

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  1. ^ "Contact ANHA". Archived from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2017. Phone +96352463446 (Hasaka Syria number)
  2. ^ "Suicide bomber strikes Syrian wedding". Fox News. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2017. Kurdish news agency
  3. ^ "وكالة أنباء هاوار". Archived from the original on 20 February 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ a b "Turkish airstrikes in northern Syria kill Hawar News Agency reporter". SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom. 22 November 2022. Archived from the original on 25 March 2023. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  5. ^ "Misdirected US strike killed 18 allied fighters in Syria". Associated Press. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  6. ^ "Domain hawarnews.com - whois domain information, history records database". Archived from the original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  7. ^ "About Us - ANHA". Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  8. ^ "HAWAR NEWS AGENCY REPORTS FALSE FACTS ABOUT THE MILITARY PRESENCE IN MAREA". Verify-sy. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  9. ^ "ANHA reporter martyred in Turkish bombing on Derik". Hawar News Agency. 20 November 2022. Archived from the original on 24 November 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  10. ^ "CPJ calls on Turkish authorities to investigate airstrikes that killed Hawar News Agency reporter". Committee to Protect Journalists. 22 November 2022. Archived from the original on 22 November 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  11. ^ a b c Buyuk, Hamdi Firat (20 December 2024). "Two Kurdish Journalists in Syria Killed in Alleged Turkish Drone Strike". Balkan Insight. Archived from the original on 20 December 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  12. ^ Abdalrahman, Didar (20 December 2024). "Two journalists killed in northeast Syria airstrike". Rudaw Media Network. Archived from the original on 20 December 2024. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  13. ^ "Two Turkish journalists killed in north Syria by 'Turkish drone'". Le Monde. 20 December 2024. Archived from the original on 21 December 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  14. ^ "Turkish authorities arrest 7 journalists protesting colleagues' murder in Syria". Gazete Duvar. 23 December 2024. Archived from the original on 23 December 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  15. ^ "Police detain 30 protesting killing of 2 Kurdish journalists by Turkish drone strike". Turkish Minute. 21 December 2024. Archived from the original on 21 December 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  16. ^ "Journalists face prison over coverage of Kurdish reporters killed in northern Syria". Bianet. 21 January 2025. Archived from the original on 21 January 2025. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  17. ^ "Prosecutors seek to replace İstanbul bar chairman, executives on terror propaganda charges". Turkish Minute. 15 January 2025. Archived from the original on 16 January 2025. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  18. ^ "Gazetecilik saldırı altında". Türkiye Gazeteciler Sendikası (in Turkish). 23 December 2024. Archived from the original on 23 December 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  19. ^ "NUJ condemns deaths of two Kurdish journalists killed by alleged drone attack". www.nuj.org.uk. 24 December 2024. Archived from the original on 24 December 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  20. ^ "Cyber attack on Rojava's ANHA news agency". Firat News Agency. 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  21. ^ "ANHA news agency website hacked". Firat News Agency. 9 October 2019. Archived from the original on 4 August 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  22. ^ "Cyber attack on Kurdish Hawar News Agency". Mezopotamya Agency. 26 March 2022. Archived from the original on 18 Jan 2025. Retrieved 18 Jan 2025.
  23. ^ "Hackers attack website of Hawar News Agency". Firat News Agency. 26 March 2022. Archived from the original on 19 January 2025. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  24. ^ a b c "Turkish authorities block access to news websites". Committee to Protect Journalists. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
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