Perşembe (newspaper)
Perşembe was a 2000-2002 bilingual in German and Turkish published weekly, which at times made particularly within the Turkish media landscape for attention.
“Perşembe” is the Turkish word for Thursday, the weekly publication day.
editor
The editor of the initially eight-page sheet was Alper Öktem, a Turkish doctor who came to Germany in 1978 and worked as a radiologist in a joint practice with his wife. He has two children and is a member of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party . Until the start of Perşembe, Öktem had little experience in publishing newspapers. Claudia Dantschke was a permanent part of the Öktems editorial team , and later Ömer Erzeren was also the editor in charge .
distribution
The only "German-Turkish weekly newspaper" was particularly popular because it was added to the Berlin daily newspaper throughout Germany . Perşembe could also be subscribed to as a separate journal independently of the taz .
subjects
Perşembe addressed itself to the Turkish immigrant society as well as to the German majority society. The paper saw itself as “recognition and implementation of an existing bicultural reality”. It was often mentioned as an alternative to a Turkish-speaking press world in the Federal Republic, which at that time was relatively Turkish-centered and largely isolated from Germany-specific topics. Perşembe also reported extensively on Turkey issues that at that time had hardly been reported in other Turkish press products, for example on latent anti-Semitism in Turkish society, the so-called Kurdish question or the genocide of the Armenians from 1915 to 1917.
effect
Even if the newspaper, which appeared for the first time on September 7, 2000 , was not a particularly popular readership, the weekly was a "commotion", especially in the Turkish press. The newspaper Hürriyet published a malicious letter against the paper, Aydınlık claimed that the German Foreign Ministry sponsored Perşembe with five million marks annually. The experiment, which was widely praised in the German press, was discontinued in March 2002, but it helped to introduce German pages in the European editions of Turkish newspapers and had a positive influence on the recognition of German realities in their reporting.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Semiran Kaya : Persembe: Balance of a failure. In: Foreigners in Germany 2/2002, 18th year,. June 30, 2002, archived from the original on August 18, 2002 ; Retrieved December 5, 2013 .
- ^ A b Karl-Heinz Meier-Braun : Migrants in Germany: Trapped in the media ghetto? (PDF 100kB) In: SWR . Archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved December 5, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c Ralf Husemann : More than a headscarf and kebab . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 10, 2001 ( HTML [accessed December 5, 2013]).