Bugün
| Bugün
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| description | Turkish newspaper |
| publishing company | Koza İpek Holding |
| First edition | January 17, 2003 |
| attitude | February 29, 2016 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Sold edition | 126,000 copies |
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| Editor-in-chief | Erhan Başyurt |
| editor | Gürdal Gürler |
| Web link | www.bugun.com.tr ( Memento from December 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) |
Bugün ( German "Today" ) was a Turkish daily newspaper . In 2015 the newspaper , which appeared in the media section of the Koza İpek Group in Istanbul , had a circulation of around 126,000. The paper had a conservative orientation, was close to the Gülen movement and partly boulevard-esque .
prehistory
From March 7, 1989, a newspaper with this name appeared under the umbrella of the Sabah group of media entrepreneur Dinç Bilgin . The first editor-in-chief was Rahmi Turan . On January 8, 2001, the paper was discontinued for economic reasons. Apart from the naming rights, there was no connection to the later Bugün .
On January 17, 2003, the paper was published under the name Dünden Bugüne Tercüman (“translator from yesterday to today”) as one of two newspapers fighting over the legacy of the traditional paper Tercüman . The editor was the journalist Nazlı Ilıcak , at times a member of the Virtue Party and widow of the Tercüman editor Kemal Ilıcak.
In 2005, Nazlı Ilıcak was defeated in the dispute over the naming rights. From then on, the newspaper only appeared under the name Bugün . In the same year the Ciner Yayın Holding got into the paper. Koza İpek bought the newspaper before the end of the year.
Flagship of Koza İpek
Nazlı Ilıcak initially stayed with the paper as an author, later switched to Sabah and returned to Bugün at the end of 2013 . Koza İpek, primarily active in the mining and energy sectors, expanded Bugün to become the flagship of the Group's media division. This also included:
- The television station Kanaltürk , founded in 2004 by journalist Tuncay Özkan and got into financial difficulties, which was bought up on May 12, 2008;
- the news channel Bugün TV, founded on March 1, 2009;
- the tabloid Millet , founded October 29, 2014.
After the break between the Gülen movement and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Recovery Party , the group's media took an opposition to the Erdoğan government. The last editor-in-chief of Bugün was Erhan Başyurt, editor-in-chief of Millet was Levent Kenez.
Receivership
Shortly before the parliamentary elections in November 2015 , the entire group was placed under state administration on charges of support and propaganda for a terrorist organization, which the Gülen organization was now considered to be ( FETÖ ). The group headquarters and the editorial offices of Bugün , Millet , Bugün TV and Kanaltürk were forcibly occupied by the police.
After the occupation, the television station broadcasting operations were discontinued. When the police had already surrounded the editorial offices, the employees of Bugün and Millet produced the last edition of their respective newspapers, which on October 29, 2015 with the headlines "Robbery by forced administrators" ( Bugün ) and "Bloody putsch" ( Millet ) published. Only one day later, after being taken over by government administrators, both papers suddenly appeared in Erdoğan-friendly format.
In an open letter to President Erdoğan , more than 50 senior editors from well-known international media, including the New York Times , the Washington Post , the Welt , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and La Stampa , protested the actions of the Turkish authorities . In this they expressed concern that the recent attacks on media and journalists "could be part of a concerted campaign" to "silence any opposition or criticism of the government in the run-up to the election".
Successor sheet and final end
Bugün and Millet appeared for the last time on February 29, 2016, under the direction of the administrators and mostly produced by other staff . Former employees of both newspapers published a successor newspaper called Özgür Düşünce ("Free Thinking") from November 18, 2015 .
After the attempted coup in July 2016 , the newspapers Bugün , Millet and Özgür Düşünce and the broadcasters Bugün TV and Kanaltürk, along with numerous other media outlets, were officially closed with Emergency Decree No. 668 of July 27, and the company's property was handed over to the State Trust Agency TMSF.
Criminal proceedings were initiated against numerous former employees and authors of Bugün and Millet for support or propaganda for a terrorist organization or even participation in the attempted coup. Some went abroad; others, including Nazlı Ilıcak and Abdullah Kılıç , were temporarily or continue to be detained.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.medyatava.net , accessed on March 4, 2015
- ↑ Özlem Topçu : Sentences that will not be forgotten , Zeit-Online, October 28, 2015
- ↑ Deniz Yücel : Erdogan storms channels while the program is running , Welt, October 28, 2015
- ↑ Turkish police storm media company with chainsaws , Zeit-Online, October 28, 2015
- ↑ Deniz Yücel : "Captured" newspapers suddenly celebrate Erdogan , Welt, October 30, 2015
- ↑ Global appeal to preserve press freedom in Turkey , Deutsche Welle, October 31, 2015.
- ↑ Pascal Beucker : Erdoğan's long list , the daily newspaper, July 29, 2016
- ↑ Kararnamesi'yle 16 televizyon, 3 haber ajansı, 45 gazete kapatıldı , Habertürk, July 27, 2016