I went looking for a source and found the official sanction, seems it’s from May 2025. This post is inaccurate at best, Russian anti-EU propaganda at worst.
Dogru is listed as being a Turkish national with a Turkish address, so not a EU citizen according to the sanction at least.
The official reasoning is pasted here. It’s mainly about him being part of the Russian propaganda machine, which is worth a sanction in my eyes, but the Gaza stuff is definitely worrying to bring up on a Russian sanctions list.
Hüseyin Doğru is the founder and representative of AFA Medya A.Ş. which is a media company based in Istanbul. AFA Medya A.Ş. operates “RED”, which comprises a number of media platforms, and which has close financial and organisational connections with Russian state propaganda entities and actors, and shares deep structural ties, including interlinkages between, and rotation of, individual personnel with Russian state media organisations.RED has used its media platforms – often publishing under “redstreamnet” or “thered.stream” – to systematically spread false information on politically controversial subjects with the intent of creating ethnic, political and religious discord amongst its predominantly German target audience, including by disseminating the narratives of radical Islamic terrorist groups such as Hamas.During a violent occupation of a German university by anti-Israel rioters, RED personnel coordinated with the occupiers to disseminate images of their vandalism – which included the use of Hamas symbols – through their online channels, thus providing them with an exclusive media platform, facilitating the violent nature of the protest.Through AFA Medya, Hüseyin Doğru thus supports actions by the Government of the Russian Federation which undermine or threaten stability and security in the Union and in one or several of its Member States, including by indirectly supporting and facilitating violent demonstrations and engaging in coordinated information manipulation.
Read between the lines buddy. It’s got everything to do with his Gaza reporting. The rest is mostly just trumped up pretext for the sanctions.
It’s really kind of dumb that people dismiss the idea that nations would use crap like this to silence or make life harder for activists when countries like Germany also push back so hard against. You know, considering how hard they try to smear Palestinian activists they have no jurisdiction over. It’s no surprise that they’ll use whatever means they can to ruin the lives of people they don’t like.
I have no respect for Germany anymore after hearing how much they accuse people of shit to silence Pro-Palestine protesters.
It’s also really stupid that some asshole decided to harass me in DMs over the existence of this thread and say we’re fascists and that we need to be nuked.
CW: Abusive message:
Russian anti-EU propaganda
LOL
Can’t report on the fascists of EU and their fascist practices?
They have literally stolen money before from people before for having a different opinion on the war in ukraine than the regime.
But that’s OK for you ‘leftist-anarchist’ clowns whose principles are defending the EU state and its warmongers.Please specify how you jumped from this:
how close financial and organisational connections with Russian state propaganda entities and actors, and shares deep structural ties, including interlinkages between, and rotation of, individual personnel with Russian state media organisations.RED has used its media platforms – often publishing under “redstreamnet” or “thered.stream” – to systematically spread false information on politically controversial subjects with the intent of creating ethnic, political and religious discord amongst its predominantly German target audience
to this:
report on the fascists of EU and their fascist practices
The text clearly states that the “reporter” has been working as distributor of propaganda for a fascist regime. Do you really think that a person actively helping a fascist country somehow is an anti-fascist?
