''Güneş'' ("Sun" in Turkish) is a daily newspaper in Turkey. It was owned by

Ethem Sancak Ethem Sancak (born 1958, Siirt) is a Turkish businessman considered to have "close ties to President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan". He completed his primary and secondary education in Siirt. He graduated from Istanbul University's Faculty ...

's Star Media Group.

History

''Güneş'' was founded in 1982 by Ömer Çavuşoğlu and Ahmet Kozanoğlu. It was later bought by Asil Nadir. ''Güneş'' was owned by the

Çukurova Media Group Çukurova Media Group (''Çukurova Medya Grubu'') is a Turkish media conglomerate established, part of the Çukurova Holding conglomerate. On 18 May 2013 it transferred a substantial number of its properties to the state TMSF, in partial settl ...

(who acquired it from Güneri Cıvaoğlu) from 1996 to 2013. It was passed to the TMSF in settlement of debts owed to the Turkish government. In 1997, Çukurova Group acquired the newspaper. In 2013,

Savings Deposit Insurance Fund of Turkey The Savings Deposit Insurance Fund of Turkey ( tr, Tasarruf Mevduatı Sigorta Fonu), a.k.a. TMSF in abbreviated form, is the governing body concerned with matters of fund management and insurance in the Turkish banking system. The body was found ...

seized the newspaper along with

Akşam ''Akşam'' (''Evening'') is a Turkish newspaper founded in 1918, owned by Zeki Yeşildağ's Türk Medya Grup (T Medya Yatırım San. ve Tic. AŞ.) since 2013. In 2013 it had a circulation of around 100,000. History ''Akşams founders in 1918 incl ...

. Later, in October 2013, it was sold to

. In August 2017, Murat Sancak acquired the newspaper. On 31 December 2019, Güneş ceased daily circulation as a stand alone newspaper to become a sister publication of the Turkish newspaper

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* Newspapers published in Istanbul Turkish-language newspapers Publications established in 1982 1982 establishments in Turkey Daily newspapers published in Turkey Zeytinburnu Defunct newspapers published in Turkey 2019 disestablishments in Turkey Publications disestablished in 2019 {{Asia-newspaper-stub