Anadolu'da Vakit

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Anadolu'da Vakit
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description Turkish newspaper
First edition 2001
attitude 2010
Frequency of publication Every day
Sold edition 52712 copies
Editor-in-chief Harun Aksoy
editor Nuri Aykon
Web link www.vakit.com.tr

Anadolu'da Vakit ( The Time in Anatolia , also Vakit for short ) was a Turkish daily newspaper . The previous newspaper was Akit until 2001 , and the successor newspaper Yeni Akit has appeared since the Anadolu'da Vakit was discontinued in 2010 . The Turkish-language European edition of Anadolu'da Vakit has been published by Yeni Akit GmbH in Mörfelden-Walldorf since December 2001 , which was banned in 2005 for sedition . According to the publisher, the European edition of Anadolu'da Vakit was 10,000 copies, the circulation in Turkey was around 52,000 copies.

Previous newspaper "Akit"

The Islamist newspaper Akit (“Agreement”) was the opinion organ of the Refah Partisi and its successor party Fazilet Partisi (from 1998). In 1995, Akit came under fire on the occasion of a judge's murder because the newspaper had made the headlines and attacked the later murder victim Ali Günday because of a headscarf ban for lawyers. In Akit, which was close to the government at the time, a number of articles appeared in which the Holocaust was denied, against which the Israeli government lodged a diplomatic protest in 1996, which, however, had no consequences.

After the Akit was closed in December 2001, the next day the Vakit appeared .

Turkey edition of Anadolu'da Vakit

The profile of the newspaper was particularly evident in its columnists. Ali Ihsan Karahasanoglu criticized the secular and especially headscarf bans . Abdurrahman Dilipak defended an Islamic way of life while expressing tolerance towards other faiths; in foreign policy he took a nationalist position. Hasan Karakaya often blamed Jews for social problems and criticized Jewish and Armenian influences on Turkish society. Serdar Arseven accused Zionism of sowing enmity between Turks and Arabs in order to divide the Islamic world. Hüseyin Öztürk wrote travel reports and on cultural topics, he accused the Turkish elite of plundering national property and criticized missionary activity in Turkey.

The Vakit was involved in various proceedings in Turkey, among others according to § 301 TCK (insulting Turkishness, the republic and the institutions and organs of the state).

The murder of the higher administrative judge Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin and the attempted murder of four other members of the second senate of the Turkish higher administrative court in 2006 were, according to the perpetrator Alparslan Arslan, also motivated by the reporting of the Vakit . The newspaper had made a controversial headscarf ruling the lead story over a long period of time, published pictures and names of the individual judges and called for resistance to the judiciary. Two officials responsible for the newspaper were eventually sentenced to heavy fines.

Turkish-language European edition of “Anadolu'da Vakit” from Germany

The Turkish-language European edition of Anadolu'da Vakit has been published by Yeni Akit GmbH in Mörfelden-Walldorf since December 2001 .

Islamist profile

According to the Hessian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, advertisements for event notices and advertisements for the Millî Görüş (IGMG) can be found frequently. Anadoluda Vakit described the IGMG's “Family Day” as exemplary and said, in contrast to Turkey, where social life is shaped by the rule of the cultural values ​​of a Muslim society, there is a completely alien socio-cultural structure in Europe, based on completely based on opposing values. The managing director of Yeni Akit was a board member of the Islamic Association Hanau, a mosque association belonging to the Islamic community Milli Görüs , and second chairman of the Hanau Foreigners Advisory Council. The 2004 report on the Protection of the Constitution did not assign the Turkish-language newspaper to a specific organization, but indicated an Islamist profile, which was particularly evident in anti-Semitic and anti-American articles.

Prohibition in Germany

The Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution reported that on November 5, 2004 a columnist threatened the "enemies of Islam" and thus justified the murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh . On November 15, 2004, Anadoluda Vakit wrote in a post highlighted as "Friday Sermon":

“Islam is our Creator's religion that he intended for humanity. Islam is everyone's program of life and the source of their happiness ... All beings who do not believe in or believe in the only true divine religion, but do not obey the commandments, are potential sources of evil. Her death can only mean a liberation for all other beings. "

The protection of the constitution of Schleswig-Holstein evaluates this as thinking in "enemy images that can be instrumentalized at any time for any political purpose".

Member of the Bundestag, Kristina Köhler, reported in 2004 on the illegal and previously neglected statements made by the Vakit . The newspaper then referred to her as the " Zionist pawn ". After a criminal complaint for incitement to hatred against Vakit , she printed a photo of MP Köhler and wrote: “Köhler starts where Hitler left off and she calls it prevention”. Another issue said: "You will damage this woman's nerves by making her sick."

On February 25, 2005, the publishing house was banned by the Federal Ministry of the Interior with immediate effect, and evidence and assets of Yeni Akit GmbH were confiscated. The reasons were explained in a press release:

“The legal basis for the prohibition are §§ 3 and 17 VereinsG in conjunction with § 130 StGB ( sedition ). Yeni Akit GmbH is directed against the idea of ​​international understanding, its purpose and activities run counter to criminal law. The Holocaust is denied or played down in a large number of articles and anti-Semitic / anti-Western propaganda is spread. ”Holocaust denial | denied

The ban on publishing does not prevent the Vakit subscribers living in Germany from receiving the Turkish original edition of the Islamist daily that is still published in Turkey.

The newspaper called the ban the "Hitler method". Because of the ban, Interior Minister Otto Schily found himself criticized by the newspaper. The newspaper defamed him as "Hitler's leftist" and caricatured Schily with a Hitler mustache and sitting in a car with swastika wheels . Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was also denigrated in one issue with the words “Like a Nazi head” and depicted with swastikas as footsteps. Politicians from all parties spoke out in favor of diplomatic negotiations with Turkey, which should lead to the newspaper being banned in Turkey as well. Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer replied that this was a matter for the Turkish law enforcement authorities. The headline “Merkel is the second Hitler” appeared in the Sunday edition of September 2, 2007 above a photo of the Chancellor, on whose arm a red swastika is emblazoned. Just as Hitler tried to make the Germans a superior race at the time, Angela Merkel now wants to continue this project, wrote the Vakit columnist Hasan Karakaya. The reason for this lead was the new immigration law of the Federal Republic, which came into force on September 1 and which is primarily directed against Turks, said Vakit.

Follow-up newspaper "Yeni Akit"

After the last edition of Anadolu'da Vakit on October 10, 2010, the follow-up newspaper Yeni Akit (“New Agreement”) has been published.

In the context of the arrest of Peter Steudtner and other human rights activists in Turkey in July 2017, the newspaper showed a photo of German Chancellor Angela Merkel with a swastika and the following text: “In the case of oppression and hatred hat Merkel's Germany overtakes Hitler. ”The newspaper claimed that sick Turks were not treated in Germany, that Turkish workers were laid off, and that apartments were no longer rented to Turks.

In the course of the dispute over the 2017 election campaigns for Turkish politicians in the Netherlands, Yeni Akit wrote: "The Netherlands has 48,000 soldiers. 400,000 Turks live in the Netherlands."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b netgazete.com ( memento of November 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on July 24, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b c Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2004 ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on Anadoluda Vakit, page 245
  3. ↑ a b Report of the Hessian Office for the Protection of the Constitution ( Memento from July 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) 2003, p. 39
  4. ^ A b Report of Anti-Semitic Incidents - Sep-96 Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  5. ↑ YAZILI BASINDA (Turkish) press evaluation Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Turkey, April 18, 1999
  6. ↑ Kemal Silay (Center for Islamic Pluralism, CIP); Lawyers of Allah: Islamist Terror and Organized Crime in Turkey . ( Memento from November 15, 2007 on the Internet Archive ) American Jewish Committee Counterterrorism Watch, December 2006
  7. ↑ a b Turkey - Guide to Major Turkish Daily Newspapers (PDF; 426 kB) Federation of American Scientists 2008
  8. ↑ Report of the European Parliament on Art. 301 TCK (PDF; 227 kB)
  9. ↑ The murder of the chief administrative judge feeds conspiracy theories. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Newspaper Fined for incurring State Officials Erol ONDEROGLU, BIA News Center 22/03/2007
  11. ^ Information for the Protection of the Constitution Bavaria 1st half of 2004
  12. ↑ Claudia Dantschke : Incitement of the people and a silence in the forest of leaves ( Memento from July 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Sicherheit-heute from March 2, 2005
  13. ↑ Yavuz should resign - Kaminsky doesn't want to wait . ( Memento of October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frankfurter Rundschau , January 19, 2005, p. 35
  14. ^ Information for the Protection of the Constitution in Bavaria ( Memento from June 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) 1st half of 2005
  15. ^ Constitutional Protection Report (PDF) Ministry of the Interior of Schleswig-Holstein, 2002
  16. ↑ The vakit ban was long overdue Kristina Köhler, Hartmut Koschyk, February 25, 2005
  17. ↑ BMI press release on the ban ( Memento from May 23, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), 2005
  18. ^ Daniel Friedrich Sturm: Turkish newspaper offends Schröder . In: Die Welt , May 11, 2005
  19. ↑ Merkel as the "second Hitler" . In: Die Zeit online , September 3, 2007
  20. ↑ Anadolu'da Vakit 'Yeni Akit' oldu . Yeni Şafak , October 11, 2010
  21. ↑ Report on Spiegel Online , July 25, 2017
  22. ↑ Turkish newspaper: Merkel's Germany has "overtaken Hitler". In: The Standard . July 25, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Maximilian Popp: Scandal between Turkey and the Netherlands: Erdogan's perfect storm . In: Spiegel Online . March 12, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 12, 2019]).