Hürriyet

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Hürriyet
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description Turkish newspaper
publishing company Demirören Medya Group
Headquarters Istanbul
First edition May 1, 1948
Frequency of publication Every day
Sold edition 280,836 copies
Editor-in-chief Sedat Ergin
Editor Hürriyet Gazetecilik ve Matbaacılık A.Ş
Web link www.hurriyet.com.tr
Building of the Hürriyet in Istanbul with relief
Building entrance

Hürriyet ( German  "Freedom" ) is a Turkish- language daily newspaper with an editorial office in Istanbul . Until 2018 it was considered one of the last independent media outlets; Before the 70th anniversary of its founding, its publisher, the Dogan media group , was bought up by the Erdoğan- affiliated Demirören Holding .

history

Hürriyet was founded by Sedat Simavi on May 1, 1948 , with 48 employees and a circulation of 50,000 in the first week. Aydın Doğan acquired the daily newspaper in 1994 during a liquidity crisis .

Ownership

Hürriyet is owned by Demirören Holding . With the takeover of the Dogan Group in 2018, the Turkish conglomerate has developed into the largest media group in Turkey and, in addition to Hürriyet, publishes several other Turkish daily newspapers, including Milliyet , Posta , Fanatik and the English-language Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review , out. In addition to some smaller special-interest channels, the company also operates the Turkish TV channels Kanal D , CNN Türk and the pay TV provider D-Smart (as of 2020)

Market position

With 280,836 copies printed daily (September 2018), it replaced the daily newspaper Zaman, which had been banned since the attempted coup in 2016 , as the highest-circulation newspaper in Turkey . After the takeover by the Dogan Group, it is in second place after the daily Sabah, which is also close to the government (as of September 2018).

In 2006 the Doğan Group's market share was 60.6% in the newspaper market and 41.6% in the Turkish advertising market as a whole.

Newspaper profile

The tabloid today classifies itself as “liberal-conservative”; Eurotopics describes them as conservative . She advocates EU membership for Turkey . In the head of the newspaper there is a picture of the founder of the state Ataturk and the motto Türkiye Türklerindir ("Turkey belongs to the Turks") next to the lettering Hürriyet in white letters on a black and red background . The newspaper has adopted twenty editorial principles.

Until the end of 2009, the editor-in-chief of Hürriyet was Ertuğrul Özkök , one of the sharpest critics of the Erdoğan government . He was replaced at the beginning of 2010 by the former head of the Ankara office, Enis Berberoğlu, and later Sedat Ergin, who was considered liberal . A well-known columnist is Ahmet Hakan .

Readers' Council

In 2008, on the initiative of the publisher's daughter, Hürriyet created the Hürriyet Okur Meclisi ( Hürriyet Readers 'Parliament ), a readers' committee with an advisory function. It consists of 50 people of both sexes in different age groups and professions. These individuals were chosen in a poll from 8,998 candidates from 47 countries. Members have the right to call meetings with all journalists and managers of Hürriyet. The first meeting took place in Ankara after visiting the Anıtkabir Museum and the Turkish Parliament . In addition to the members, the then editor-in-chief Ertuğrul Özkök and various managers and journalists of the newspaper attended this founding meeting. The President of the Turkish National Assembly, Köksal Toptan , gave a speech in honor of the founding of the Readers' Parliament and praised the function of such an organ for democracy and freedom of the press.

Europe edition

According to IVW, the Europa edition is the largest Turkish-language daily newspaper in Europe and contains four to six separate pages with a focus on Germany. Until 2006 it was looked after by approx. 60 correspondents and editors in Mörfelden-Walldorf near Frankfurt (the final editing, however, is in Istanbul). The European edition had a sold circulation of 24,316 (4th quarter 2013) copies, ten years earlier there were 68,200 copies (4th quarter 2003), which are distributed in 24 countries (as of first quarter 2014).

In June 2001, the German-language Hürriyet pages appeared in Germany for the first time, previously exclusively Turkish. The current editor-in-chief of the Europa edition is Celal Özcan.

Hürriyet Germany

See Hurriyet.de

Controversy and criticism

In 1994, for the first time in the history of the German Press Council, the reporting of a foreign-language publication, the Hürriyet, was objected to. She received a public reprimand for incorrectly calling the Lord Mayor of Hanover Herbert Schmalstieg as the " PKK 'ler Lord Mayor". In 1996, the press council disapproved of three publications by Hürriyet, which indirectly called for attacks on monitor boss Klaus Bednarz . The newspaper received further reprimands, among other things, for taking over a report from another newspaper. When reporting on the house fire in Ludwigshafen am Rhein in 2008, the Bild newspaper complained that the press council was not sufficiently investigating complaints about Hürriyet articles.

In 2001, the head of the Hürriyet Europe edition, Ertuğ Karakullukçu, was dismissed. As chief commentator, Ertuğ Karakullukçu orchestrated most of the controversial attacks.

The head of the Essen Center for Turkish Studies , Faruk Şen , said in 2004: “The tide has changed. It relies more on integration . " The Taz held the paper in 2008 for populist and unhelpful to the notification of Germany and Turkey.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Weekly circulation numbers of Turkish newspapers , In: medyatava.com . Retrieved June 11, 2019.
  2. Hürriyet - data from Eurotopics
  3. Report by Sputnik (Turkish)
  4. HÜRRİYET'İN KİLOMETRE TAŞLARI. (No longer available online.) In: Hürriyet Kurumsal. 2005, archived from the original on March 23, 2008 ; Retrieved October 9, 2008 (Turkish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hurriyetkurumsal.com
  5. ^ Aydin Dogan receives Golden Victoria for his services to integration and German-Turkish understanding , press release by the Association of German Magazine Publishers , November 4, 2008
  6. Overview: Relevant Actors in the Media Area in Turkey (PDF; 140 kB), By Deniz Taskiran, FoTurk [Relevant Media Actors] 05/08/2008
  7. Eurotopics  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 21, 2013)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.eurotopics.net  
  8. 20 “Editorial Principles of Hürriyet” ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 309 kB) Hürriyet 2004 Annual Report  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hurriyetkurumsal.com
  9. Dogan's withdrawal: “Hürriyet” boss is also leaving  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . meedia.de, January 3, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / meedia.de  
  10. Article on the establishment of the Readers' Parliament , Hürriyet, accessed on October 16, 2008 (Turkish)
  11. Report on the visit to the Turkish National Assembly , Hürriyet, accessed on December 4, 2008 (Turkish)
  12. according to IVW , second quarter 2020, ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  13. a b You have to cross this bridge ... Ever since Turkey wanted to become a member of the EU, the mass newspaper "Hürriyet" has been trying to integrate with German-language sites.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Julia Bonstein, Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 8, 2003@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / de.qantara.de  
  14. ^ Karl-Heinz Meier-Braun: Migrants in Germany: Trapped in the media ghetto? ( Memento of December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 103 kB) in: tendenz, magazine for radio and television of the Bavarian state center for new media, issue 1/2002, pp. 4–9.
  15. Press Council amends press code - “Eulenspiegel” and “Coupe” reprimanded for “serious violations” ( memento of the original from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Hamburger Abendblatt , May 17, 1996  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abendblatt.de
  16. ^ A lesson from Ankara , Berliner Zeitung , March 29, 1996
  17. ^ German Press Council: Three Rügen for "Coupé" , Der Spiegel , June 21, 2001
  18. "The head of the snake should be crushed" - The scientist Elcin Kürsat-Ahlers fights against the fact that Hürriyet has presented her as a traitor ( memento of the original from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Thomas Maron, Frankfurter Rundschau , August 4, 2001  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dta-uni-hannover.de
  19. ^ "Coupé", "taz", "Hürriyet", "Bild", "BZ": complaint from the press council , shortnews.de, June 21, 2001
  20. Fire in Ludwigshafen News from the press council and certified translations , Dr. Nicolaus Fest , picture, April 28, 2008
  21. 17 years of Hürriyet - the medal with two pages (PDF; 156 kB), by Aysun Ertan
  22. "Hürriyet": The largest Turkish newspaper in Germany is controlled from Istanbul , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 10, 2004
  23. 60 years of the daily newspaper "Hürriyet": A sheet for the peoples disagreement , taz, April 11, 2008