Sabah (daily newspaper)
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| description | Turkish newspaper |
| publishing company | Merkez Gazete Dergi Basım Yayıncılık San. Ve Tic. A.Ş. |
| First edition | April 22, 1985 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Sold edition | 334,437 copies |
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| Editor-in-chief | Ergun Babahan |
| editor | Yavuz Onursal |
| Web link | sabah.com.tr |
Sabah ( Turkish for tomorrow ) is one of the largest and highest-circulation Turkish daily newspapers and has been owned by the AKP- affiliated Çalık Holding since 2013 and is classified accordingly. It had several predecessors of the same name. Eurotopics describes today's Sabah as "an important mouthpiece for the Erdoğan government".
history
The sheet, first published on April 22, 1985, had two predecessors with the same or similar names.
First Sabah newspaper from 1875
A first newspaper called Sabah was founded in 1875 by the Greek-born Istanbul publisher Papadopulos in the Beyoğlu district in the famous Çiçek Passage . The first editor-in-chief was the then 23-year-old Sami Frashëri , who had already made a name for himself as the author of the first western-style novels in the Turkish language. Sami is also the father of the founder of the traditional soccer club Galatasaray Istanbul .
In the dispute, the paths of Sami and Papadopulos parted and in 1882 the publisher finally sold the paper to the Armenian Mihran Nakkaschian from Kayseri because of disagreements regarding the handling of the censorship . Until then, he had worked as an administrative director at Sabah.
Due to good relations with the then Sultan Abdülhamid II , the newspaper established itself and found its way into the palaces of the Ottoman Empire. Nakkaschian always wrote positively about the Sultan in his comments and publicly included him in his prayers.
Sabah was then sold at a quarter of the usual prices for daily newspapers, and in 1891 it had a circulation of 12,000 for the first time. The newspaper has now expanded, moved into new business premises and hired well-known journalists and authors, including the Turkish war correspondent and nationalist Ahmet Rasim .
On August 24, 1908, Mihran Nakkaschian and the owner of the competing newspaper İkdam , Ahmet Cevdet , agreed to dismiss the censorship officers in their newspapers and thus to print issues without censorship for the first time. This day is still celebrated in Turkey today as "Freedom of the Press Day". The first editor-in-chief of "Sabah" after the Young Ottoman Revolution was the Armenian-Turkish publicist Diran Kelekian . After his arrest in the context of the events of April 24, 1915 , which initiated the genocide of the Armenians , the Young Turkish Committee for Unity and Progress (KEF) took control of the newspaper.
After the end of the First World War , there was a rapprochement between Mihran Efendi, as he was commonly known, and Ali Kemal , a political opponent and editor of the daily Peyam . At Mihran's request, the two companies merged to form Peyam-ı Sabah.
Ali Kemal, as a conservative journalist, was opposed to the Young Turkish Movement and later Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and criticized it publicly. After the surrender of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War, he was briefly Ottoman Minister of the Interior.
After the Turkish army under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk took Izmir , Mihran distanced himself from Ali Kemal and from then on published the newspaper as Sabah . Ali Kemal was arrested as a traitor after the Kemalist victory and was lynched while in custody. Fearing for his life, Mihran closed the newspaper on November 7, 1922, sold his possessions and fled to France. There he changed his name to Nakkaşoğlu and died in Nice in 1944 .
Founded in 1938 and 1985
It was not until 1938 that the journalists İlhami Safa and Cemalettin Saraçoğlu published another newspaper under the name Yeni Sabah ('The New Morning') , but it was discontinued in 1964.
Since its inception, Sabah has become the leading Turkish-language daily newspaper in Istanbul . It was owned by the Dinç Bilgin Group and from 2005 to 2008 it belonged to the Ciner media group, which unites two television stations, four daily newspapers and 31 magazines under one roof.
In Germany, Sabah has been appearing again since March 20, 2006, after it was previously unable to establish itself on the German market and the circulation in Germany was discontinued. There is also a US version.
In 2007 the Merkez media group, to which Sabah belonged, was seized by the state trust company TMSF and placed under the financial supervision of a state control authority. After several lawsuits, the previous owner Turgay Ciner reached an agreement and large parts of Merkez were put up for sale. In December 2007 Çalık Holding took over the media association for 1.1 billion US dollars and Sabah became Turkuvaz Medya Grubu on April 22, 2008 within Çalık Holding , which also operates the newspapers Yeni Asır and Takvim , as well as the television station atv , integrated. Serhat Albayrak, the older brother of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's son-in-law ( Berat ) , was appointed to head the Turkuvaz media group .
On April 12, 2013, the newspaper obtained an urgent decision from the Federal Constitutional Court , according to which in the NSU trial, in addition to the seats for already accredited journalists, "an appropriate number of seats will also be allocated to representatives of foreign media with special reference to the victims of the accused" must. When the court initially allocated seats for representatives of the press, foreign, and in particular Turkish, media were not given a chance.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ weekly circulation figures of Turkish newspapers ( memento of the original from November 11, 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. , accessed on July 20, 2009 from netGazete .
- ↑ Sabah | eurotopics.net. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
- ^ Friedrich Schrader , Political Life in Turkey. In: Die Neue Zeit , Volume 37, Volume 2, 1919, pp. 460–466, quotation on page 463 below.
- ↑ Ayşe Hür, Resmi Tarihin Ünlü Haini: Ali Kemal , Taraf Gazetesi, April 11, 2008 ( memento of the original from November 1, 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. (Turkish)
- ↑ Foreign press gets places in the NSU trial. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 12, 2013, accessed November 28, 2014 .
