Firat News Agency
[13] Because of the ANF's alleged links with the PKK, access to its websites from Turkey has been repeatedly blocked by Turkish courts[14][15][16][17] in what has been described by O'Brien of the Committee to Protect Journalists as a "cat-and-mouse" game.[20] Under the psuedonym Silan Aras, Ayfer Serçe wrote for the ANF until her death in July 2006 in West Azerbaijan province, while covering regional suicides.[23][24] In 2014, Leyla Yildizhin,[25][26] writing as Deniz Firat, was killed by shrapnel in Makhmur, Iraq while working as a freelancer for ANF.[34] The European Federation of Journalists released a statement, stating "We are very concerned about this arrest which constitutes a dangerous precedent.[35] On 23 December that year, Azadi was released on bail,[36] leading the Council of Europe to mark the case resolved, concluding it "was no longer an active threat to media freedom".