İbrahim Karagül (born 1969 in Sinlice, Salpazari,

Trabzon Trabzon (; Ancient Greek: Tραπεζοῦς (''Trapezous''), Ophitic Pontic Greek: Τραπεζούντα (''Trapezounta''); Georgian: ტრაპიზონი (''Trapizoni'')), historically known as Trebizond in English, is a city on the B ...

) is a Turkish journalist and a former editor in chief of the newspaper ''Yeni Safak''.

Education and early life

He attended primary school in Sinlice, secondary education he received in

Rize Rize (Greek: ρίζα, Laz: რიზინი, Georgian: რიზე, , Ottoman Turkish: ريزه) is the capital city of Rize Province in the eastern part of the Black Sea Region of Turkey. Rize is a typically Turkish provincial capital w ...

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and

. He graduated from the

Imam Hatip school Imam (; ar, إمام '; plural: ') is an Islamic leadership position. For Sunni Islam, Sunni Muslims, Imam is most commonly used as the title of a worship leader of a mosque. In this context, imams may lead Salah, Islamic worship services, ...

in Trabzon. He studied law at the

Dokuz Eylül University Dokuz Eylül University ( tr, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi) (DEÜ) is a university in İzmir, Turkey. It was founded in 1982 and is organized in 15 faculties. DEU is the first university which applied the problem-based learning method in Turkey, ...

in Izmir. Since his student years, he worked in various media and worked as foreign news editor. He also stayed in

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

for a while, and translated a novel of the Malaysian author Şahnun Ahmed into Turkish.

Professional career

Karagül started working in Yeni Şafak newspaper in 1995, and is known for his articles and columns focusing on foreign politics. He was appointed as the general editor of television in 2011. Then in July 2012, Karagül was appointed the

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

of Yeni Şafak of the

Albayrak holding Albayrak Group is a Turkish multinational conglomerate company based in Istanbul, Turkey. For the first three decades it was a construction company, but since 1982 it has expanded into other sectors, including transport and logistics, waste mana ...

. During his tenure the newspaper turned into an outlet which staunchly supported the

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around Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. His articles are often cited in the international press as he claims that the USA attempted to kill the Turkish president Erdogan supported the Turkish offensive in North-East Syria or accused foreign

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of leading an attack against Turkey by the means of financial terrorism. He also assumed that Turkey is under attack by the USA who allegedly unleashed the

Kurdistan Workers' Party The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of sout ...

(PKK) and the

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(ISIL) on Turkey. During the Nagorno Karabakh conflict between

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and

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, he insinuated that missiles should hit the city center of

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...

"accidentally". Karagül resigned from ''Yeni Safak'' in December 2020.

Wildfires controversy

As in August 2021 he claimed that the Republican Peoples' Party (CHP) and the PKK were behind the raging wild fires, the CHP filed a criminal complaint against him.

Personal life

Karagül is married and has two children.

References

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