World Media Group
The World Media Group AG was an international media company based in Offenbach am Main . The unlisted stock corporation was represented in twelve major German cities and in ten European capitals and distributed, among other things, the highest-circulation Turkish newspaper, Zaman , in Germany. It employed around 250 people in Germany until it dismissed its employees due to conflicts within Turkey and had to close in 2016. It was attributed to the Gülen movement .
history
The Turkish-language daily newspaper Zaman was first printed and distributed in Ankara in 1986. It initially appeared in an edition of 15,000. In the meantime she ran her own printing works in Istanbul, Izmir, Adana and other cities and was at the top of the print media in Turkey with a circulation of over 800,000.
In 1992 the "Zaman-Verlags- und Handels-GmbH" was founded as a subsidiary of the Turkish publisher Feza Gazetecilik AS (Print). The European edition Zaman Avrupa appeared in Germany with a subscription circulation of around 30,000 copies. The company had its first headquarters in Düsseldorf. This was followed by stations in Neu-Isenburg and Mörfelden-Walldorf. Since the Turkish media transport their daily newspapers to all of Europe by air, the Rhine-Main area was chosen as the European headquarters due to its proximity to the airport.
The second product of the media group was the Turkish-language television station Samanyolu TV Avrupa. He broadcast productions specially designed for Europe from his own television studios in Germany.
In 2005 the company moved into a representative building in Offenbach am Main. In 2008 an in-house print shop was built on the site.
On July 1, 2006, World Media Group AG was founded with its four subsidiaries. It acquired Zaman Verlags- und Handels-GmbH from the sole shareholder Feza Gazetecilik AS in Turkey and acted as a licensee to them. At the same time, she acquired the license rights for the television station Samanyolu TV Avrupa from the parent company in Turkey and has since continued the television business as Peyk Media GmbH.
Ebru TV (later until QLAR ceased broadcasting ) and Samanyolu TV Avrupa received German broadcasting licenses from the Hessian State Authority for Private Broadcasting and New Media in 2008 . 2010 was the start of the German and English-language lifestyle and culture channel Ebru, which broadcasts via the Eutelsat Hot Bird 13A satellite and, since March 1, 2013, via Astra 1M .
At the end of November 2016, the German-language edition of Zaman was discontinued and 70 employees were laid off.
Headquarters
In a former Polaroid building in Offenbach, editorial offices and studios of the company headquarters were housed on an area of 18,000 m². The workers there worked with correspondents across Europe. The editors produced for television, Internet and daily newspaper as well as the media-technical implementation of the programs. A state editorial office was opened in Düsseldorf in mid-2013. From here there was daily reports on state politics in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft also took part in the inauguration and spoke to the Turkish Consul General.
media
World Media Group AG published the Turkish-language daily newspaper Zaman Avrupa ('Zeit Europa') with around 30,000 subscribers in Germany. Four of its 24 pages were reserved for topics from Germany. The company also operated Zaman-Online.de .
The programs for the private TV channels Samanyolu TV Avrupa and QLAR , which were broadcast across Europe, were produced in the studios of the World Media Group .
World Media Academy
The World Media Academy , founded by the World Media Group in 2012, is a journalism and media academy for the promotion of young journalists and students interested in journalism. She organizes seminars and workshops with experts from the media industry. The spectrum of topics ranges from print, radio and online journalism to public relations and media law . Since 2013 the academy has also been organizing training courses in Berlin and since 2014 in Düsseldorf.
The Main Germany series of talks initiated by World Media Group AG has been running since February 2009, and its speakers include personalities from culture, business, politics, media and science.
Business activity and ownership
The balance sheets of World Media Group AG were published in the Federal Gazette in accordance with legal requirements . As of December 31, 2012, the balance sheet total was 14,621,467.90 euros with a balance sheet profit of 87,805.47 euros.
The ownership structure of World Media Group AG was reported to the KEK . It belonged to a group of companies that is influenced by the movement of the Turkish preacher Fethullah Gülen . In addition to banks, educational institutions and universities, this also includes other media.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Madeleine Reckmann: In the capital . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , February 13, 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2013.
- ^ A b Volker Siefert: Gülen Media in Germany: A newspaper as a mouthpiece , Deutschlandfunk , April 19, 2014.
- ^ A b Günther Lachmann: Islam movement is spreading in Germany . In: Die Welt , accessed April 10, 2013.
- ↑ Turkish media offer . In: Medium Magazin , No. 04/2013.
- ↑ Madeleine Reckmann: Offenbach: Threats against Turkish newspaper , Frankfurter Rundschau , November 7, 2016
- ↑ The end of Zaman: “She was a voice of reason” , German-Turkish Journal , December 2, 2016
- ↑ Thomas Klatt: The Turkish newspaper Zaman wants to defy the crisis . evangelisch.de, March 17, 2013.
- ↑ a b Frank Uferkamp: Turkish newspapers in Germany: Stories from "Almanya" , West German newspaper , 17 April 2013
- ↑ Fatih Aktürk: Hannelore Kraft came despite the stress when forming a government: ZAMAN opens state editorial office in Düsseldorf , dtj-online.de, October 1, 2013
- ↑ Daniel Bax: “Hürriyet” closes down in Germany: Güle güle, Almanya! , Taz , March 11, 2013
- ^ Website of the Academy , accessed April 10, 2013.
- ↑ Fatih Aktürk: World Media Academy: After Offenbach and Berlin: World Media Academy now also in Düsseldorf , German Turkish Journal: dtj-online.de, December 27, 2014
- ↑ Lecture by Dr. Franz-Josef Jung, Member of the Bundestag, at the series of talks "Main Germany" ( Memento from December 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), DJV -Landesverband Hessen, March 25, 2014
- ^ World Media Group AG. In: kek-online.de , accessed on August 22, 2016.
- ↑ Maximilian Popp: Islam: The Godfather . In: Der Spiegel , August 6, 2012, accessed on August 22, 2016.
- ↑ Jan Kuhlmann: Allah's New Elite: The followers of the Gülen movement (PDF; 131 kB). Broadcast manuscript rbb Kulturradio , May 26, 2013.