Turkey
Teyit’s project to debunk an anti-vaccination bestseller mobilizes Turkey — now it’s being funded by the IFCN
Turkey is witnessing a disturbing anti-vaccination campaign. And the International Fact-Checking Network is supporting local…
Turkish fact-checkers are at war — against old military operation footage and photos with false captions
Turkish fact-checkers are at war. They are fighting loads of miscaptioned photos and videos, and…
How a fact-checker went from zero to 84,000 Instagram followers in 8 months
Teyit’s Instagram presence looks like Vox and The Guardian had a baby. It’s beautiful. And…
This fact-checking site tried crowdsourcing a story. Here’s what it learned.
Şükrü Oktay Kılıç is a digital content strategist at Teyit, a Turkish fact-checking website. On…
These TV stations keep airing bogus photos and videos
After news broke of a fire at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris last week,…
This Turkish fact-checker turned 7,628 messages from readers into a report
In 2016, the editor of a debunking organization wanted to give people a way to submit and…
This Turkish fact-checking site took ratings off its homepage. Then its reader engagement doubled.
Editor's note: This article has been updated with FactCheck.org and PolitiFact's latest traffic numbers. Less…
In Turkey, ‘it seems the critical press is defenseless at the moment’
Emre Kizilkaya was having dinner with his family in Istanbul on the night the Turkish…
Report: More than 80 media organizations shut down in Turkey
In the wake of a failed coup attempt earlier this month, more than 80 news…
A tug-of-war for power in Turkey, with journalists in the middle
As an attempted military coup unfolded Turkey Friday night, reports on social media pointed to…