Today's Zaman
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| description | English-language daily newspaper in Turkey |
| publishing company | Feza Gazetecilik A.Ş. |
| First edition | January 16, 2007 |
| attitude | July 27, 2016 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Sold edition | 7 026 copies |
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| Editor-in-chief | Bülent Keneş |
| editor | Ali Akbulut |
| Web link | www.todayszaman.com |
Today's Zaman , Sunday's title: Sunday's Zaman , was an English-language daily newspaper in Turkey . It was a sister publication of the Turkish-speaking Zaman and, like the latter, belonged to the media group Feza Gazetecilik A.Ş. who is supposed to be related to the Gülen movement .
Foundation and organization
When it was founded in January 2007, Today's Zaman was Turkey's third English-language newspaper, after the Turkish Daily News, founded in 1961 (which has belonged to the Dogan Media Group since 2001 and has been called Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review since 2008 ) and The New Anatolian (2005 until 2007). The economic competition and ideological contradictions between Hürriyet Daily News and Today's Zaman correspond to those between the respective associated Turkish-language daily newspapers Hürriyet and Zaman. Today's Zaman (and Zaman and the Feza media group) were seen as supporters of the Gülen movement. At the founding reception of Today's Zaman, numerous ministers from the AKP also attended Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , who had already received newspaper drafts from Feza's managing director before it was founded. Today's Zaman, which has been published daily since January 16, 2007, had its own editor-in-chief and around 40 editors. Bülent Keneş, who was previously editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Bugün , has been the editor-in-chief since it was founded. The circulation, which was around 11,000 in April 2007, was 7,026 in April 2011. Today's Zaman, along with Zaman, was the only Turkish newspaper that was a member of the International Newspaper Color Quality Club .
Profile and content
Today's Zaman obtained news and content from the Turkish newspaper Zaman and the Cihan Haber Ajansı news agency , which was also part of the Feza media group. According to editor-in-chief Kenes, Today's Zaman followed a "liberal and democratic editorial line, provided that the sensitivities of religious groups are respected". The "black propaganda from pro-Israeli circles", according to which the English-language Today's Zaman only feigns a more liberal and democratic editorial line than the Turkish sister newspaper Zaman, has no evidence whatsoever. Today's Zaman's most important journalists on political and cultural issues were Zaman editor-in-chief Ekrem Dumanlı , Kerim Balci, Andrew Finkel, Nicole Pope and Ali Bulac, who is considered to be the representative of the intellectual strand of Turkish Islamism of our day. Other columnists were Mümtazer Türköne, Charlotte Mcpherson, Klaus Juergens and Kathy Hamilton. Cihan News Agency director Abdulhamit Bilici is also a regular columnist on foreign affairs for the Zaman and Today's Zaman newspapers . Occasionally, the former editor-in-chief of the Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos , Etyen Mahçupyan, also wrote articles. Former Dutch European politician Joost Lagendijk published columns in Today's Zaman and Zaman .
During the controversy over a Gülen-critical manuscript by journalist Ahmet Şık in April 2011, columnist Andrew Finkel was dismissed when he complained in his submitted column about the “aggressive persecution of people who write books” and affirmed that it was “not a crime To write books that attack the Gülen movement ”. Editor-in-chief Kenes then stated that Finkel had been dismissed because his articles had repeatedly contradicted the editorial line, unfortunately Finkel had come "under the influence of strong and dark propaganda".
Sunday's Zaman
In the Sunday edition, entitled Sunday's Zaman, the newspaper focused on background analysis, commentary, features and reports of cultural and social events and entertainment.
On July 27, 2016, all newspapers related to the Gülen movement (including Today's Zaman), magazines and news agencies were banned and disbanded in the wave of purges following the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey .
See also
Web links
- Today's Zaman ( Memento from January 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- Sunday's Zaman
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Today’s Zaman, edition 7,026: 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. netGazete; Retrieved April 12, 2011
- ↑ Angel and Demon . In: Spiegel Special , 6/2008.
- ↑ a b c Turkey - Guide to Major Turkish Daily Newspapers . (PDF; 436 kB) Federation of American Scientists , 2008
- ↑ Business: New English paper launched in Turkey SETimes 19/01/2007
- ↑ Media Landscape - Turkey ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. European Journalism Center (Excerpt from European Media Governance: The National And Regional Dimensions, published by Intellect)
- ^ Ercan Yavuz: New English Daily From Ankara . iosworld.org, January 15, 2007
- ↑ Bülent Keneş: Rapidly rising Today's Zaman scaling new heights . ( Memento of January 28, 2007 on the Internet Archive ) Today's Zaman, December 3, 2007
- ↑ Bülent Keneş Profile guardian.co.uk
- ↑ 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. , netGazete , accessed April 30, 2007.
- ↑ wan-ifra.org (PDF)
- ↑ wan-ifra.org
- ↑ Providing a Better Understanding of Turkey Today's Zaman, January 15, 2007 (Fethulla Gülen website)
- ↑ Bülent Keneş: Black propaganda . ( Memento of January 28, 2007 on the Internet Archive ) Todays Zaman, June 14, 2010; "Today's Zaman pursues a liberal and democratic editorial policy, provided that the sensitivities of religious groups are respected"
- ↑ Guenter Seufert: Portrait of Ali Bulaç from Qantara.de , February 16, 2007
- ^ Columnists Today's Zaman ( Memento of January 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Journalists regularily [sic] writing on Turkey-Armenia relations European Stability Initiative, August 2010
- ↑ Joost Lagendijk : What is happening in the Netherlands? (1) ( Memento from January 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Sundays Zaman , October 17, 2010
- ↑ Andrew Finkel: A dilemma . ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2011 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. hurriyetdailynews.com, April 7, 2011
- ↑ Bülent Keneş: Why was Andrew Finkel fired? ( January 28, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive ) Todays Zaman, April 11, 2011; “Some of our writers have come under the influence of the strong and dark propaganda that is at play and have started to stagger. Unfortunately I feel the same way about Finkel… If you read his earlier articles on the Today's Zaman's website you too will see that that Finkel's last article, which was not published, is not the only article of his that contradicts the daily's editorial line. ”
- ↑ Today's Zaman: About us ( Memento from January 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Taraf ve Zaman'ın yanı sıra 16 televizyon kanalı da kapatıldı . CNN Turk. Retrieved July 28, 2016.
