
Baybars Orsek is the director of the International Fact-Checking Network and international programming at the Poynter Institute.
Before joining the International Fact-Checking Network; Orsek founded Turkey’s first and only political fact-checking project Dogruluk Payi (Share of Truth) in 2014 and Turkey's open data platform Veri Kaynagi (Data Source), as the founding chairman of Turkey’s leading media non-profit Izlemedeyiz (On Watch).