Tercüman
Tercüman ( German "translator" ) was a Turkish daily newspaper. The first edition appeared in 1961. The editor was the journalist and entrepreneur Kemal Ilıcak .
The Tercüman emerged from the 1955 founded newspaper Hadiselere Tercüman ("translator of events"), which was bought in 1961 by Kemal Ilıcak and initially other partners. The newspaper partly had a tabloid character , but at the same time developed into the most influential voice of the political right and one of the most important print media in Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s.
In 1971 Tercüman was the first Turkish newspaper to open its own printing plant in Frankfurt am Main . At that time it was already printing its own German edition. The German edition, which was designed by editors in Frankfurt as well as in Istanbul , was published at times by Wiesbaden's Media-Daten Verlag.
In 1982 the heavily tabloid newspaper Bulvar was founded.
After the editor's death in 1993, the newspaper plunged into an economic crisis, was sold and eventually closed.
On January 17, 2003, two different newspapers appeared with this name: On the one hand as Halka ve Olaylara Tercüman ("translator of events and of the people"), which was published by Mehmet Emin Karamehmets Çukurova group , which claimed the naming rights for itself and then also published Akşam , Güneş and Bulvar newspapers . And on the other hand as Dünden Bugüne Tercüman (“translator from yesterday to today”), which was edited by Kemal Ilıcak's widow Nazlı Ilıcak .
In 2005, the Çukurova group finally won the dispute over the naming rights. The newspaper she published was henceforth just called Tercüman . On June 24, 2010, it was discontinued for economic reasons, as was Bulvar in 2008 .
Nazlı Ilıcak's newspaper appeared under the name Bugün after the litigation . At the end of 2015, the paper was placed under compulsory administration and banned after the attempted coup in July 2016 .
Web links
- Overview of the history of the newspaper
- Bir halk iki Tercüman , Radikal , January 18, 2003