''Milliyet'' (
Turkish for "''nationality''") is 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 ...
published in
Istanbul
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Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
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History and profile
''Milliyet'' came to publishing life at the Nuri Akça press in
Babıali
The Sublime Porte, also known as the Ottoman Porte or High Porte ( ota, باب عالی, Bāb-ı Ālī or ''Babıali'', from ar, باب, bāb, gate and , , ), was a synecdoche for the central government of the Ottoman Empire.
History
The nam ...
,
Istanbul
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as a daily private newspaper on 3 May 1950. Its owner was
Ali Naci Karacan
Ali Naci Karacan (1896 – 7 July 1955) was a Turkish journalist and publisher. He was involved in founding the Turkish daily newspapers ''Akşam'' (1918) and ''Milliyet'' (1955), and his family, including grandson Ali Naci Karacan, built up a pub ...
. After his death in 1955 the paper was published by his son, Encüment Karacan.
For a number of years the person who made his mark on the paper as the editor in chief was
Abdi İpekçi
Abdi İpekçi (9 August 1929 – 1 February 1979) was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and an activist for human rights. He was murdered while editor-in-chief of one of the main Turkish daily newspapers '' Milliyet'' which then had a cent ...
. İpekçi managed to raise the standards of the Turkish press by introducing his journalistic criteria. On 1 February 1979, İpekçi was murdered by
Mehmet Ali Ağca
Mehmet Ali Ağca (; born 9 January 1958) is a Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist Abdi İpekçi on 1 February 1979, and later shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on 13 May 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison. After serving ...
, who would later attempt to assassinate the
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
.
''Milliyet'' is published in
broadsheet format.
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In 2001 ''Milliyet'' had a circulation of 337,000 copies.] According to comScore, ''Milliyet'''s website is the fifth most visited news website in Europe.
Ownership
In 1979 the founding Karacan family sold the paper to Aydın Doğan
Aydın Doğan (born 15 April 1936) is a Turkish business magnate and investor. He is the founder of Doğan Holding, one of Turkey's largest conglomerates.
Biography
Born in 1936 as a member of a well-known family in Kelkit. Doğan went to e ...
. Erdoğan Demirören, who owned 25% of the paper, later also sold his stake to Doğan. In October 1998 the paper was briefly sold to Korkmaz Yiğit
Korkmaz Yiğit (born 1943, in Erzincan) is a Turkish businessman. He made his fortune in construction, and expanded into finance and media, but fell rapidly from grace in 1998 when apparent connections with mob figure Alaattin Çakıcı were reve ...
, being bought back within weeks when Yiğit's business empire collapsed in the face of unrelated fraud allegations.['' Hurriyet Daily News'', 4 November 1998]
October: Crisis with Damascus defused after Ocalan leaves Syria; the rise and fall of Korkmaz Yigit
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The paper was purchased by a joint venture of the Demirören Group
Demirören Group is a Turkish conglomerate company. Its properties include Milangaz (a liquefied petroleum gas distributor with 9% of the Turkish market), the Demirören İstiklal shopping mall in Taksim Square, as well as several newspapers, te ...
and Karacan Group Karacan is a Turkish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Ali Naci Karacan
Ali Naci Karacan (1896 – 7 July 1955) was a Turkish journalist and publisher. He was involved in founding the Turkish daily newspapers ''Akşam'' (1918) a ...
in May 2011, but after legal and financial issues Karacan sold its stake to Demirören in February 2012.
Editorial line
Since 1994, ''Milliyet'' has abandoned its stable, "upmarket" journalism established by Abdi İpekçi for a middle-market editorial line akin to that of Hürriyet
''Hürriyet'' (, ''Liberty'') is one of the major Turkish newspapers, founded in 1948.
, it had the highest circulation of any newspaper in Turkey at around 319,000. ''Hürriyet'' has a mainstream, liberal and conservative outlook. ''Hürriyet ...
. Internet edition of ''Milliyet'' often incorporates sensational material from '' The Sun'' and '' Daily Mail'' and there is tremendous amount of overlap among the daily coverage, such as identical articles and photographs.
''Milliyet'' has been criticised for having self-censored a column that was critical of the Prime Minister's reaction to a press leak. The column was frozen out for two weeks and then blanket-refused for publication.
In early 2012 ''Milliyet'' fired Ece Temelkuran
Ece Temelkuran (born 22 July 1973, in Izmir["About"]
ecetemelkuran.com ) is a Turkish journalist and author. She was ...
after she had written articles critical of the government's handling of the December 2011 Uludere massacre, and Nuray Mert
Nuray Mert, (born 1960 in Trabzon, Turkey) is a Turkish columnist and political scientist. She is a columnist for Hürriyet Daily News. Mert is also a Bilderberg participant.
Academic career
After graduating from Feyziye Mektepleri Işık Colle ...
after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan publicly criticized her.
In 2013, ''Milliyet'' fired two columnists Hasan Cemal
Hasan Cemal (born 1944) is a Turkish journalist and writer. He was the editor of ''Cumhuriyet'' from 1981 to 1992, and of ''Sabah'' from 1992 to 1998. In 2013 he resigned from the '' Milliyet'' newspaper after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ...
and Can Dündar, who had taken critical stances against the AKP government.
Supplements
''Milliyet'' has published several supplements. One of them was '' Milliyet Çocuk'', a children's magazine published as a supplement of the paper between its start in 1972 and 1974 before becoming an independent publication.
Digital archives
In September 2009, ''Milliyet'' opened its digital archive becoming the first Turkish newspaper to do so.
Notable people
See also
* List of newspapers in Turkey
In Turkey there were 141 newspapers in 1941 of which total circulation was nearly 60,000 copies. The number of newspapers became 2002 in 1946.
List of national newspapers in Turkey
Below is a list of national printed newspapers published in Tur ...
References
External links
*
Milliyet news
Milliyet's digital archive
* {{cite web, author=Salih Sarıkaya, url=http://www.salihsarikaya.com/en/turkish-journalist-fired-writing-columns-might-disturb-prime-minister/, date=17 October 2014, title=Turkish Journalist Can Dündar fired for writing columns that might 'disturb' the prime minister from Milliyet Newspaper in Turkey, url-status=dead, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021021852/http://www.salihsarikaya.com/en/turkish-journalist-fired-writing-columns-might-disturb-prime-minister/, archive-date=21 October 2014, df=dmy-all
1926 establishments in Turkey
Publications established in 1950
Newspapers published in Istanbul
Turkish-language newspapers
Nationalist newspapers
Daily newspapers published in Turkey