Aydınlık

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Aydınlık
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description Turkish daily newspaper
publishing company Anadolum Gazetecilik
Headquarters İstiklal Cd., Deva Çık. No. 3/3, Beyoğlu / İstanbul
First edition March 1, 2011 (as daily newspaper)
Frequency of publication Every day
Sold edition 50,241 copies
(January 2017)
Editor-in-chief Deniz Yıldırım
editor Tunç Akkoç
Web link Aydınlık

Aydınlık (German: “Klarheit”, also “Enlightenment” or “The Brightness”) is a Turkish daily newspaper. She is considered the mouthpiece of the left- wing Kemalist , nationalist and anti-imperialist Fatherland Party (Vatan Partisi). The leading author of the newspaper is Doğu Perinçek , who is also the chairman of the Fatherland Party. Since the names of the parties founded by Perinçek often changed due to bans and name changes, his followers are also called colloquially after the party organ "Aydınlıkçılar" (for example: "Aydınlıkists"). In terms of content and personnel, there is a lot of overlap with the television station Ulusal Kanal , which is also considered the mouthpiece of Vatan Partisi.

Since it was first published in 1968 (at that time still as a monthly newspaper), Aydınlık was sometimes more, sometimes less of a party newspaper, so that at times important intellectuals such as Aziz Nesin , Turan Dursun or Metin Altıok published in Aydınlık or the previous publications without being associated with the respective Perinçek Party. Other former authors who temporarily belonged to the party later made a name for themselves as left-liberal journalists and scholars. These include Oral Çalışlar , Cengiz Çandar , Şahin Alpay and Halil Berktay .

History: Organ of the TKP (1921-25)

The first edition from 1921

The first Turkish magazine called Aydınlık was founded in 1921 by Şefik Hüsnü Değmer , the second general secretary of the conspiratorial Communist Party of Turkey (TKP). Aydınlık was Turkey's first socialist magazine and supported the war of liberation . However, it was banned in 1925. Değmer and other employees were sentenced to prison terms. In its later publications the TKP did not use the name Aydınlık again, so that supporters of the student movement of 1968 picked up the "orphaned" name. Even if the imprint of today's Aydınlık indicates the year of foundation 1921, this reference is only to be understood as ideal. There was no direct line from TKP to the “re-establishment” in 1968.

Organ of the student movement (1968-71)

In 1968, student activists who turned away from the Turkish Labor Party and its youth association founded Aydınlık as a monthly magazine. In addition to student activists such as Doğu Perinçek , Vahap Erdoğdu, Mahir Çayan and Deniz Gezmiş , TKP dissidents Mihri Belli and Hikmet Kıvılcımlı were also involved. Aydınlık became an influential organ of the student movement and represented the thesis of the “National Democratic Revolution”, that is, the thesis initially developed largely by Belli, according to which Ataturk's democratic revolution must first be “completed” before the move to socialism is possible.

In 1970 there was a split. The group around Belli, Çayan and Gezmiş and founded a magazine called Aydınlık Sosyalist Dergi ( Socialist magazine Aydınlık ), while the group around Perinçek called their organ Proleter Devrimci Aydınlık ( Proletarian revolutionaries Aydınlık ) as well as those founded by Perinçek and themselves illegal Revolutionary Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey (TİİKP) turned to Maoism . With the military coup in 1971 , both editions of Aydınlık were banned.

Party sheet of the Perinçek group and denunciation allegations (1974-80)

After an amnesty under the new Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit , with which many imprisoned supporters of the student movement were released in 1974, Aydınlık was re-established as a weekly newspaper in November 1974 . In February 1975 the magazine was banned and appeared from October 1975 under the name Siyaset Kuramı Dergisi . Aydınlık first appeared as a daily newspaper on March 20, 1978, roughly parallel to the establishment of the legal workers and peasants' party of Turkey (TİKP) . From 1978 onwards, the newspaper repeatedly published the names and addresses of largely illegally active left activists, which the rest of the left saw as denunciation. With the military coup in 1980 , the newspaper was banned again.

2000'e Doğru magazine and the Kurdish question (1987–93)

In 1987, the monthly 2000'e Doğru ( Towards 2000 ) was founded. The layout was that of a news magazine, the editorial office was opened. Since hardly any opposition media could appear at this time, 2000'e Doğru also became attractive for authors who did not belong to the Perinçek group. Just as the Socialist Party (SP), founded in 1988, not only turned away from Maoism, but also timidly from Kemalism and began to deal more intensively with the Kurdish question , the 2000's Doğru also often dealt with this topic and approached the PKK . In October 1989, Perinçek, in his capacity as editor-in-chief in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Plain, interviewed the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan . It was one of the very first interviews with Öcalan in the Turkish media. In 1992 the SP was banned because of its views on the Kurdish question, and it was succeeded by the Workers' Party (İP).

Daily newspaper Aydınlık and Islamism (1993-94)

Instead of 2000'e Doğru , Aydınlık appeared again as a daily newspaper from May 1, 1993 . The İP functionary Ferit İlsever became the editor-in-chief and the writer Aziz Nesin became the editor . With him, other intellectuals not belonging to the party, such as the political scientist Baskın Oran , the economist Korkut Boratav or the writer Cezmi Ersöz, could be won as authors. Soon after, the newspaper began to publish Nesin-translated passages from Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses . The outrage of Islamists culminated on July 2, 1993 in the Sivas pogrom . Nesin survived, while Aydınlık author and poet Metin Altıok died with 36 other people.

Return to the weekly newspaper and the Ergenekon proceedings (1994–2011)

In April 1994 the daily newspaper was discontinued, instead Aydınlık appeared again as a weekly newspaper. But the breadth of authorship and the associated influence that distinguished 2000'e Doğru and above all the 1993/94 daily newspaper was lost. Subsequently, the paper shrank again to the communication organ of the party, which in turn returned to its Kemalist roots and also took more and more openly nationalist positions, which was noticeable, for example, in the vehement denial of the genocide of the Armenians .

In the course of the investigation into the alleged Ergenekon organization , Doğu Perinçek, Aydınlık editor-in-chief Serhan Bolluk , the editor-in-chief of Ulusal Kanal Ferit İlsever and the journalist Adnan Akfırat were arrested in March 2008 . Further arrests in the political and public sphere of Aydınlık followed, including Perinçek's son Mehmet. In August 2013, Doğu Perinçek was sentenced to life imprisonment under aggravated conditions. Akfırat received 19 years, İlsever 15, Bolluk seven and a half and Mehmet Perinçek six years. In March 2014 they were released by order of the Constitutional Court; In April 2016, the Court of Cassation rejected all Ergenekon judgments.

Reappeared as a daily newspaper (since 2011)

On March 1, 2011, Aydınlık appeared for the third time as a daily newspaper. Right from the start, the paper took a firm stance against the AKP . However, since the break between Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Fethullah Gülen in the course of the corruption scandal of December 2013 and especially since the attempted coup in July 2016, there has been a certain rapprochement with Erdoğan and the AKP.

In addition to Doğu Perinçek and his wife Şule, the former General İsmail Hakkı Pekin , the political scientist and politician Birgül Ayman Güler and the German-Turkish politician Hakkı Keskin are among the prominent authors of the newspaper today .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Average sold circulation in the week of January 16-22 , 2017 according to Medya Tava .
  2. ↑ "proletarian revolutionary AYDINLIK (central organ of the Marxist-Leninists Turkey)". October 1971. No. 4 (German edition)
  3. ^ Mete Tunçay: Türkiye'de Sol Akımlar. Vol. 1: 1908-1925 , İletişim Yayıncılık, Istanbul 2009, ISBN 9789750507113 .
  4. ↑ Imprint on the Aydınlık website
  5. ↑ a b c Ergun Aydınoğlu: Türkiye Solu (1960-1980) , Versus, Istanbul 2007, ISBN 9789944989299 .
  6. ↑ Vehbi Ersan: 1970'lerde Türkiye Solu , Istanbul 2014, İletişim Yayıncılık, ISBN 9789750512414 .
  7. ↑ Hazal Özvarış: Oral Çalışlar'ın 12 Eylül'de Aydınlık için Kenan Evren'e yazdığı mektup , T24, September 26, 2013.
  8. ↑ PKK Perinçek'i bu fotoğraflarla vurdu! ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Gerçek Gündem, September 15, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gercekgundem.com
  9. ↑ Fikri Akyüz: 2000'e Doğru dergisi ve Soner Yalçın , Akşam, July 18, 2013.
  10. ↑ Doğu Perinçek Abdullah Öcalan'la Neden Görüştü? , Opinion of the Fatherland Party from 2016.
  11. ↑ Yalçın Küçük, Perinçek ve Öcalan ilişkisine Bir de bu açıdan bakın . OdaTV, November 29, 2007.
  12. ↑ Udo Wolter: Sivas remains , Jungle World, July 4, 2013
  13. ↑ Helga Hirsch: When 15,000 Islamists Hunted Alevis , Die Welt, July 2, 2013
  14. ↑ Deniz Yücel : Taksim is everywhere - The Gezi movement and the future of Turkey , Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89401-791-0
  15. ↑ Katharina Fontana: Reluctant acquittal , Neue Zürcher Zeitung, September 8, 2016
  16. ^ Open Source Center (OSC) of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence , 2008 study.
  17. ↑ İşte Ergenekon Davası'nda verilen cezalar , Hürriyet, August 5, 2013.
  18. ^ Court overturns judgments against alleged coup plotters , Zeit-Online, April 21, 2016
  19. ↑ Yasadışı 'F Örgütü' hukuk yoluyla tasfiye edilmeli , interview with Doğu Perinçek, Yeni Akit, April 6, 2004.
  20. ↑ Ahmet Taşgetiren: En büyük risk , Star, September 11, 2016.
  21. ↑ Hakkı Keskin : AKP ve yetkilileri 15 Temmuz'dan ders aldılar mı? , Aydınlık, September 24, 2016.
  22. ↑ İsmet Özçelik: AKP yine nereye! , Aydınlık, October 18, 2016.