''Bugün'' ( en, Today) was a Turkish
daily newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports ...
. It was established in 2005. Columnists and journalists working for it have included
Cengiz Çandar
Cengiz Çandar (born 1948) is a Turkish journalist, senior columnist, and a Middle East expert. He is the author of Turkey’s Neo-Ottomanist Moment - A Eurasianist Odyssey (Policy Series) (2021); Turkey's Mission Impossible: War and Peace with t ...
,
Ahmet Almaz
Ahmet Almaz is a Turkish journalist, translation, translator, and non-fiction writer.
Almaz was born in Anamur. He attended school in Konya, Ceyhan, Karaman and Anamur. He went to university in 1993, publishing his first work, The Birth of Stars ...
,
Toktamış Ateş and
Kamil Maman.
''Bugün'' was founded in January 2003 as ''Dünden Bugüne Tercüman'', an attempt to resurrect ''
Tercüman''. It was renamed in 2005. The paper belonged to the
Koza Ipek Holding, a conglomerate considered to belong to the network of followers of the U.S.-based preacher
Fethullah Gülen
Muhammed Fethullah Gülen (born 27 April 1941) is a Turkish Islamic scholar, preacher, and a one-time opinion leader, as de facto leader of the Gülen movement. Gülen is designated an influential neo-Ottomanist, Anatolian panethnicist, Isl ...
. During the 2010s, the paper was aligned with the conservative positions of the governing
Justice and Development Party (AKP), but after a rift in 2013 it started criticizing the AKP and in 2015 was perceived to suffer pressure as part of the media opposed to the Government.
[ Hurriyet Daily News, 2015]
Appointment of trustee panel for Koza İpek holding creates uproar in Turkey
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2005 establishments in Turkey
Mass media shut down in the 2016 Turkish purges
2016 disestablishments in Turkey
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