BirGün
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| description | Turkish daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Birgün Yayıncılık |
| Headquarters | Altan Erbulak Sok. No.9 / A, Mecidiyeköy, Şişli / İstanbul |
| First edition | April 14, 2004 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Sold edition | 14,116 copies |
| (January 2017) | |
| Editor-in-chief | Barış İnce |
| Web link | Birgün |
BirGün ( German "One Day" ) is a nationally distributed Turkish daily newspaper . The newspaper, produced in Istanbul, is close to trade unions and the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP). She criticizes both the politics of the ruling Conservative Justice and Recovery Party (AKP) and the Kemalism of the current opposition. The newspaper's motto, printed on the title head , is Halkın Gazetesi (“People's Newspaper”).
BirGün was founded in 2004 by a group of intellectuals and is supported by trade unions, chambers of engineers and architects as well as socialist parties. The newspaper is one of the few papers that is independent of large corporations, but it complains about difficulties in distribution and in the advertising business due to this fact.
In addition to well-known left-wing authors, journalists from larger media companies who could no longer work there for political reasons, such as Ece Temelkuran , Bülent Mumay or İrfan Değirmenci, have also found refuge at BirGün . The Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was also one of the newspaper's regular authors.
The newspaper makes a name for itself again and again with combative, sometimes ironic front pages and headlines.
In March 2016, the editor-in-chief Barış İnce was sentenced in the first instance to 21 months in prison for insulting the head of state Recep Tayyip Erdoğan . The occasion was an article in the BirGün in which he had hidden a criticism of Erdoğan in an acrostic . In August 2017, the newspaper's editor, Burak Ekici, was issued an arrest warrant. He is accused of belonging to the Gülen movement .
Since 2016 some of the articles on the Internet have also been published in English as BirGün Daily .
See also
Web links
English-language Internet edition BirGün Daily
Individual evidence
- ↑ Average sold circulation in the week of January 16-22 , 2017 according to Medya Tava .
- ↑ Birgün. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
- ^ NDR: Turkey: Media concentration threatens press diversity. May 2, 2018, accessed on May 3, 2018 (German).
- ↑ "Calling Erdogan a thief is not an insult," Barış İnce in an interview, Die Welt, March 10, 2016.