Turkuvaz Media Group is a Turkish media company. The company was sold to

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2008. As of 2014 the company operates under

Kemerburgaz Kemerburgaz is a village in the Eyüp district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Toponymy Kemerburgaz is a historic settlement located southwest of Belgrad Forest between the aqueducts Kurt Kemeri ("Wolf's Aqueduct") and Uzun Kemer ("Long Aqueduct" ...

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, Göktürk, İstanbul in Kalyon Group. The company's

Ahmet Çalık Ahmet Çalık is a Turkish businessman who is the chairman of Çalık Holding. He was made a government minister in Turkmenistan by Saparmurat Niyazov. He is married with four children and lives in Istanbul. According to ''Forbes'', his fortu ...

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, son of

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, former Minister of Finance and Treasury who is married to the daughter of

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. The company is also known as

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- ATV Group.

Government ties

Turkuvaz Media Group has been described as having a pro-government stance. Ceren Sözeri described the group as " Pelikanist" and she claimed that the media group published fake news during the 2019 Istanbul Mayoral Election. It has been discovered that Turkuvaz Media Group owned 18.37% of the public resources distributed through formal advertising. According to Murat Ağırel, the media group was funded with between 2017 and 2019 by

Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality ) , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 34000 to 34990 , area_code = +90 212 (European side) +90 216 (Asian side) , registration_plate = 34 , blank_name_sec2 = GeoTLD , blank_in ...

. Zehra Yildiz criticised the independence and freedom of Turkuvaz Media Group along with other media companies due to them joining public contracts and having a commercial relationship with the state.

Controversies

Turkuvaz Media Group charged

Berna Laçin Berna Laçin (born 20 August 1970) is a Turkish actress and TV presenter. She is best known for popular rom-com ''Evdeki Yabancı'' and ''Belalı Baldız'' adaptation of Hope & Faith A graduate of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul State ...

, a Turkish actress whose theatre plays were banned by the provincial governorships, with "being a headscarf advesary" , "having a provocative character", and "insulting

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". Laçin announced that she will file a criminal complaint about the incident. It was claimed in an ATV-A Haber mutual broadcast that cheats codes of the game

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written on a paper sheet were " coup instructions". Turkish mafia leader Sedat Peker stated that Turkuvaz Media Group was a part of operations conducted against him.

List of brands and media outlets

Takvim ''Takvim'' is a Turkish daily newspaper owned by Kalyon Group. The word "takvim" means calendar in Turkish. Founded by Dinç Bilgin in 1994, ''Takvim'' was acquired by Ahmet Çalık's Turkuvaz Media Group in 2008, as part of its $1.1bn purchase ...

Fotomaç ) , type = , format = , school = , owner = Turkuvaz Media Group(subsidiary of Kalyon Group) , founder = Dinç Bilgin , publisher = , president ...

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, Fikriyat, Sabah Avrupa, Sabah USA, Sabah Sarı Sayfalar, Yeniasirilan.com, ATV, A2,

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, A Haber Radyo, A Spor, A Spor Radyo, A News, ATV Avrupa, Minika, Minika Çocuk, Minika Go, Teknokulis, Aktüel, Bebeğim,

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, Cosmopolitan Bride,

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, Home Art,

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, Lacivert, Otohaber, Para, Sofra, Şamdan, Turkuvaz Matbaacılık, Turkuvaz Dağıtım Pazarlama, Turkuvaz Mobil Medya, Abone Turkuvaz, Turkuvaz Radyoları, Turkuvaz Kitap, D&R, Vav TV and Vav Radyo.

References

External links

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