"Cypriot journalist Sevgul Uludag wins Courage in Journalism Award
Turkish Cypriot journalist Sevgul Uludag and Afghan journalist Farida Nekzad have both won this year’s International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award. Both journalists who strive for a free press have both been the target of intimidation, attacks and the recipient of death threats. Sevgul Uludag 49 continues to report stories that reveal the truth about events in her tense country - Cyprus. An investigative reporter for Yeniduzen newspaper in Cyprus, Uludag has been a journalist for nearly three decades. In 2002, she began writing about missing people and mass graves in Cyprus. Her reporting started a public debate about the issue of missing people and mass graves and led to official searches and exhumations. Uludag lives in the northern part of divided Cyprus but through her reporting attempts to ease the segregation between the Greek and Turkish communities. In doing so, she has faced many obstacles, including death threats and violent attacks. In April 2003, the daily paper Volkan, mouthpiece of the nationalist movement, pronounced threats of murder against Uludag and called upon readers to "cut off the tongue of Sevgul Uludag." But neither hate campaigns nor psychological terror keep Uludag from publishing her articles."
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