Gozcü
| Gozcü
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|---|---|
| description | Turkish daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Doğan Yayın Holding (Turkey) |
| Headquarters | Istanbul |
| First edition | May 15, 1996 |
| attitude | April 1, 2007 |
| Editor-in-chief | Rahmi Turan |
| editor | Aydın Dogan |
Gözcü (Guardian) was a Turkish daily newspaper that appeared in Istanbul . The indirect successor is Sözcü .
history
From May 15, 1996 a daily newspaper called Gözcü (Guardian) appeared in the Doğan media group . While the quality newspaper Radikal, published only a few weeks earlier by the same publishing house, had a left-wing liberal orientation, the tabloid Gözcü pursued a strictly nationalist and Kemalist line. It was conservative but secular . After the Justice and Recovery Party (AKP) came to power in late 2002 , Gözcü took a clearly oppositional stance. Most recently it achieved a circulation of around 130,000 copies sold daily.
With the issue of April 1, 2007, Gözcü was discontinued. Rahmi Turan, editor-in-chief of Gözcü in the eleven years of its publication , justified the closure with a lack of profitability. In view of the sales figures available, critics considered this representation to be implausible. They suspected that publisher Aydın Doğan had stopped the newspaper for political reasons because it displeased the AKP government of then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan . The journalist Emin Çölaşan , who was still the author of the Doğan newspaper Hürriyet when Gözcü was closed and a columnist at Sözcü since 2009 , later doubted that the paper had been discontinued for economic reasons and described the closure as a “surrender” of the publisher.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Deniz Som: Çankaya'yı temiz tut, Türkiye'yi kirletme , Cumhuriyet, April 3, 2007.
- ↑ Ben kapattırdım , Interview with Rahmi Turan , Hürriyet, April 5, 2007.
- ↑ Melih Altınok: Hal-i Medya , Birgün, April 10, 2007.
- ↑ Emin Çölaşan: Sözcü'de dört yıl , Sözcü, October 13, 2013.