Hurriyet.de
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| German-Turkish news site | |
| languages | German |
| operator | Demirören Media International GmbH |
| On-line | 15th November 2018 |
| https://www.hurriyet.de | |
Hurriyet.de is a German-language online news site with a focus on news from Turkey and on German-Turkish topics. The site is an offshoot of the well-known Turkish daily Hürriyet . In contrast to the Turkish-language Hürriyet and its European edition, both of which have final editing in Istanbul, Hurriyet.de is operated by an independent team of German and German-Turkish editors from the company's headquarters in Mörfelden-Walldorf near Frankfurt / M. are active. In addition to the spelling without umlaut, which dates from before 2002, before umlauts were introduced in domain names, the site can now also be reached under the umlaut domain Hürriyet.de.
history
Hurriyet.de officially went online on November 15, 2018. The number of employees has since grown from 18 to 23 (self-disclosure / as of April 2020)
Ownership
The owner and operator of Hurriyet.de is Demirören Media International GmbH based in Mörfelden-Walldorf, a subsidiary of the Turkish Demirören Holding . With the takeover of the Dogan Group in 2018, this Erdoğan- related conglomerate has developed into the largest media group in Turkey and, in addition to Hürriyet, publishes several other Turkish daily newspapers in Turkey , including Milliyet , Posta , Fanatik and the English-speaking 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)
Publication profile
The offer of Hurriyet.de is mainly aimed at the third and fourth generation of Turks living in Germany and at Germans and other German-speaking readers with a private or professional interest in Turkey. Despite the closeness of the parent company to the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , the then editor-in-chief Christian Ehrhardt assured in an interview with Der Spiegel at the end of 2018 that one would deliver neutral reporting "without opinion, without suggestion, without emotion" and "realistic." Image of Turkey "want to draw. One adheres to German law and journalistic practices. In the guidelines of the site, there is consequently a reference to the German press code . Hurriyet.de, the German press agency (dpa) , Agence France-Presse (AFP) , the in-house Demirören Haber Ajansı (DHA) and the sports information service (sid) serve as news sources .
Editor-in-chief of Hurriyet.de and at the same time managing director of the operating Demirören Media International GmbH is the German-Turkish journalist Ahmet Ihsan Karakasli. Karakasli worked as a reporter and editor for Hürriyet in Germany from 1970 to 1980 at the beginning of his career . In the further course of his career he held positions as managing director of the Association of Turkish Entrepreneurs and Industrialists in Europe ATIAD eV in Düsseldorf, the Munich representation of the Union of Chambers and Stock Exchanges of Turkey TOBB and continued to work at the Center for Turkish Studies in Essen.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Big leap in Germany for the Demirören Medya group: Hurriyet.de from CNN Türk (November 15, 2018 / Turkish)
- ↑ Sale of the Dogan Media Group: Presidential Press from FAZ.net (March 23, 2018)
- ^ Website of Demirören Holding by Demirören Holding (English)
- ↑ Ulrike Simon: Super good news from Turkey by Der Spiegel (December 6, 2018 / partly with costs)
- ↑ Guidelines for checking facts, ethics and corrections from Hurriyet.de