Yurt
| Yurt
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| description | Turkish daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Ajans Baskent |
| Headquarters | Maltepe Mh., Eski Çırpıcı Yolu Sk. No.2, Zeytinburnu / Istanbul |
| First edition | January 29, 2012 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Sold edition | 5,275 copies |
| (January 2017) | |
| Editor-in-chief | Veysi Şahin |
| editor | Durdu Özbolat |
| Web link | Yurt |
Yurt (Heimat) is a Turkish daily newspaper based in Istanbul . The first issue appeared on January 29, 2012 with the headline “Shooting order from the Prime Minister”.
The owner is Durdu Özbolat , who was a member of the Turkish Parliament from 2007 to 2015 as a member of the CHP . Yurt describes himself as "independent, populist and oppositional". It is considered an organ of the CHP, even if those responsible rejected this suspicion before it appeared. The style of the newspaper is polemical and polarizing.
The first editor-in-chief of Yurt was Merdan Yanardağ, who had previously worked for Hürriyet and Sabah and was involved in founding the daily newspapers Aydınlık and Özgür Gündem in the 1990s . In the summer of 2013, under the impression of the Gezi protests , the newspaper exceeded the mark of 60,000 copies sold daily. In the summer of 2014, the former Milliyet editor-in-chief Derya Sazak became the new editor-in-chief of Yurt . After his release in April 2015, Yanardag returned to this post. Only four months later he left the paper for the second time. As a reason, he cited "deep differences of opinion about the management style and the publication policy of the newspaper". One point of contention was the attitude towards the Kurdish conflict . Numerous employees went with him. It was later revealed that there had been repeated difficulties with paying salaries. His successor was Veysi Şahin, who had last worked for Akşam , but had also worked as a press advisor for the CHP for a while.
Currently (as of January 2017) the newspaper sells less than a tenth of the edition from summer 2013.
Criminal proceedings
- In January 2013, the then 22-year-old Yurt reporter Sami Menteş was arrested as part of an investigation against the DHKP-C . He spent ten months in custody and was considered the youngest journalist in prison in the world. The prosecution is demanding 18 years' imprisonment. (As of January 2017).
- In April 2013 the Yurt correspondent in Hatay , Hasan Kabakulak, was arrested on charges of espionage for Syria . He was in custody for twenty months.
- In August 2013, the then editor-in - chief Yanardağ was sentenced to ten years and six months in prison in the Ergenekon trial . He was released after six months in prison; the judgment was overturned in 2016 with all other judgments of the Ergenekon trial.
- In December 2016, the Turkish-Syrian journalist Hüsnü Mahalli , former Middle East correspondent for the BBC and one of the newspaper's most prominent authors, was arrested for “insulting the President” and “insulting public officials”. He was released after a month in custody.
criticism
- Because of advertisements that the DHKP-C- affiliated magazine Yürüyüş had placed in the paper, the Gülen- affiliated daily Zaman accused the newspaper of sympathy for the DHKP and of proximity to the PKK because of the work of the then editor-in-chief for Özgür Gündem . Yurt denied this, saying the allegations were revenge for the newspaper's critical coverage of the Gülen movement.
- The newspaper is repeatedly accused of supporting the Assad regime in Syria, especially in the media close to the AKP .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Average sold circulation in the week of January 16-22 , 2017 according to Medya Tava
- ↑ Gerçek Gündem, February 7, 2012
- ↑ Yurt imprint
- ↑ Gerçek Gündem, October 5, 2011
- ↑ Average sold circulation in the week of July 15-21, 2013 according to Medya Tava
- ↑ Interview with Medyatava, August 18, 2015
- ↑ Birgün, March 4, 2016 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Gazeteciler.com, August 19, 2015
- ↑ Diken, May 21, 2015
- ↑ Bianet, October 8, 2014
- ↑ T24, September 14, 2013. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Cumhuriyet, March 10, 2014
- ↑ BBC Türkçe, December 16, 2016 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Yurt, January 20, 2017
- ↑ Sol, December 25, 2012 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ En Son Haber, May 12, 2013
