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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Demirören Media Group |
Editor | Gökçe Aytulu |
Founded | March 1961 |
Political alignment | Centre-right Historical: Centre-left Political liberalism |
Headquarters | Hürriyet Medya Towers, Güneşli, 34212 Istanbul, Turkey |
ISSN | 1300-0721 |
Website | hurriyetdailynews |
The Hürriyet Daily News, formerly Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review and Turkish Daily News, is the oldest current English-language daily in Turkey, founded in 1961. The paper was bought by the Doğan Media Group in 2001 and has been under the media group's flagship Hürriyet from 2006; both papers were sold to Demirören Holding in 2018.[1]
Ideology
[edit]Hürriyet Daily News has generally taken a secular and liberal or centre-left position on most political issues, in contrast to Turkey's other main English-language daily, the Daily Sabah, which is closely aligned with the Justice and Development Party of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Another conservative competitor, the Gülen movement-run Today's Zaman, was shut down by the government following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt.[2]
In May 2018, the new Erdoğan-aligned owners appointed a new editor and publisher and stated that they intended to run the paper as an independent, non-partisan voice, in implicit contrast to both its previous secular orientation and the Daily Sabah.[3]
Editor
[edit]The current editor-in-chief is Gökçe Aytulu,[4] who replaced Murat Yetkin in October 2018.
Columnists
[edit]The paper contains domestic, regional, and international news coverage, economic and cultural reporting, as well as regular opinion pieces from leading Turkish journalists and thinkers such as Mehmet Ali Birand,[5] Soner Çağaptay,[5] Nuray Mert,[6] Mustafa Akyol,[7] İlhan Tanir,[5] Burak Bekdil,[5] Sedat Ergin,[8] Semih İdiz,[9] and former editor David Judson.[5][10]
References
[edit]- ^ "New editor-in-chief, CEO take over at daily Hürriyet". Hürriyet Daily News. 18 May 2018. Archived from the original on 24 December 2022.
- ^ Chris Johnston and agencies in Istanbul (27 July 2016). "Turkey coup attempt: arrest warrants issued for former newspaper staff". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ^ Demirören, Erdoğan (18 May 2018). "Chairman Demirören writes on Hürriyet's 'journey of democracy'". Hürriyet Daily News. Archived from the original on 27 January 2023.
- ^ "Gökçe Aytulu takes helm at Hürriyet Daily News - Türkiye News". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ a b c d e "Opinion". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ "NURAY MERT". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ "MUSTAFA AKYOL". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ "SEMİH İDİZ". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ "SEDAT ERGİN". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ "Turkish News - Latest News from Turkey". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2022.