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Doğan Yurdakul
Doğan Yurdakul (1946 – September 3, 2017 in Datça) is a Turkish journalist and writer. He has contributed to newspapers including '' Vatan'', ''Aydınlık'', ''Evrensel'', '' Siyah-Beyaz'', and '' Günaydın'' as well as the television news programme 32. Gün. His books include biographies of Turkish intelligence agent Hiram Abas and of Abdullah Çatlı (''Reis''), both written with Soner Yalçın. Yurdakul is charged in the Odatv case of the Ergenekon trials; he was the news co-ordinator of odatv. He was arrested in March 2011 and released on health grounds in February 2012. Both of the trials later were dismissed on grounds of judicial irregularities while confirming the evidence presented to be falsified. Bibliography * ''Sırların Kavşağında'' (2012) * ''Abi: "Efsane" (1935–1984)'' (2007) * (with Soner Yalçın) ''Reis – Gladio'nun Türk tetikçisi''. Doğan Kitapçılık, İstanbul 2003, . * ''ABI: I-Dündar Kiliç ve kabadayılık efsanesi'' (2001) * ''Abi: R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language
Turkish ( , , also known as 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, a member of Oghuz languages, Oghuz branch with around 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and one of two official languages of Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, other parts of Europe, the South Caucasus, and some parts of Central Asia, Iraqi Turkmen, Iraq, and Syrian Turkmen, Syria. Turkish is the List of languages by total number of speakers, 18th-most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Persian alphabet, Perso-Arabic script-based Ottoman Turkish alphabet was repl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vatan (2002 Newspaper)
''Vatan'' ("Homeland" or "Motherland") is a Turkish daily newspaper founded in 2002 by the Doğan Media Group. The paper was purchased by DK ( Demirören-Karacan partnership) in April 2011 and totally acquired by Demirören Holding Demiören is a Turkish word meaning ''iron braider'' and may refer to: Company * Demirören Group Demirören Group is a Turkish conglomerate company. Its properties include Milangaz (a liquefied petroleum gas distributor with 9% share of the Tu ... a few months later. As of March 2011, ''Vatan'' had the 15th highest circulation in Turkey at 111,489.Medya Tava Circulation figures Web: ''Medya Tava'' March 8, 2011 However on 1 November 2018 it ceased publication. References External links *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aydınlık
''Aydınlık'' ("Clarify" or "Enlightenment" in Turkish) is the newspaper of the Patriotic Party (''Vatan Partisi''). Originally launched as a weekly newspaper in 1921, it has been repeatedly closed and relaunched, most recently in 2011. History Early history ''Aydınlık'' was launched in 1921 as the Ottoman Empire's first socialist newspaper (a weekly); it was associated with the Communist Party of Turkey. It was closed down in 1925. In the interim it published authors such as Nâzım Hikmet, Şevket Süreyya Aydemir, Hasan Âli and Kerim Sadi. In November 1968 it was relaunched as a monthly magazine, by Doğu Perinçek and Vahap Erdoğdu of the Workers Party of Turkey, with contributors including İbrahim Kaypakkaya. It was closed in 1971 after the 1971 Turkish coup d'état. It was relaunched in November 1974 as a weekly, but was shut down under martial law in February 1975. It resumed publication in October when martial law was lifted, as a monthly magazine. On 1 M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evrensel
''Evrensel'' () is a Turkish daily newspaper. History and profile ''Evrensel'' was founded on 7 June 1995. The issues captured and written are from a socialist perspective. The paper is different from other Turkish newspapers in that it presents an in-depth research into issues surrounding the workers unions. In 2017, newspaper started an English version of news. Ban on public advertisements In 2019, Turkey's Press Advertisement Agency (BİK) imposed a suspension on Evrensel newspaper, blocking its access to government advertisements. In August 2022, Turkish authorities permanently revoked the ''Evrensel'' daily's license to publish public advertisements, a vital revenue source for many newspapers. The cancellation, imposed by Turkey’s Press Advertising Agency (BİK), was based on allegations of "bulk buying" of newspapers in several provinces. Specifically, it was reported that 13 provincial and district organizations of the Labor Party (EMEP) collectively purchased 650 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günaydın
Günaydın is a Turkish surname, literally “good morning”. Notable people with the surname include: *Dilara Buse Günaydın (born 1989), Turkish female swimmer *Engin Günaydın Engin Günaydın (born 23 January 1972) is a Turkish actor and comedian. Biography Günaydın was born in Erbaa, Tokat Province. He began his university studies at Hacettepe University Conservatory, but in his second year he switched to Mimar ... (born 1972), Turkish actor and comedian * Erol Günaydın (1933–2012), Turkish actor It is also a Turkish newspaper, * '' Günaydın'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Gunaydin Turkish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiram Abas
Hiram Abas (1932 in Istanbul – 26 September 1990) was a Turkish intelligence official in the National Intelligence Organization (Turkey), National Intelligence Organization (MIT). He retired after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, but returned in August 1986 as deputy to MIT chief Hayri Ündül, retiring again in 1988. He was assassinated on 26 September 1990 by leftwing revolutionary group Dev Sol. According to an article in the leftist pro-Kurdish ''Kurtuluş'' magazine,''Halk Icin Kurtulus'', № 99, 19 September 1998 – quoted in See footnote 30. MIT deputy chief Hiram Abas was present at the 1977 Taksim Square massacre. (Swiss historian Daniele Ganser says that Abas was a CIA agent; the CIA's station chief in Istanbul, Duane Clarridge, spoke glowingly of him.) Hiram Abas had been trained in the US in covert action operations and as an MIT agent first gained notoriety in Beirut, where he co-operated with the Mossad from 1968 to 1971 and carried out attacks, "targeting left-wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdullah Çatlı
Abdullah Çatlı (1 June 1956 – 3 November 1996) was a Turkish secret government agent, as well as a contract killer for the National Intelligence Organization (MİT). He led the Grey Wolves, the youth branch of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), during the 1970s. His death in the Susurluk car crash, while travelling in a car with state officials, revealed the depth of the state's complicity in organized crime in what became known as the Susurluk scandal. He was a hitman for the state, and was involved in the killings of suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA). Career Çatlı was born to a Turkish family in the city of Nevşehir. He grew up in Nevşehir, a small province in Central Anatolia. Çatlı was familiar with the views of the far-right MHP and Turkish ultra-nationalists. 1978–1984 Çatlı was responsible, along with Haluk Kırcı and several other MHP members, for the 9 O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soner Yalçın
Soner Yalçın (born January 1, 1966) is a Turkish journalist and writer. The co-founder of the news website odatv, he was arrested in February 2011 along with other odatv journalists and charged with links to the Ergenekon organization. He was released pending trial in December 2012. Career Soner Yalçın is an investigative journalist specialized in reporting about the deep state in Turkey. He began working in 1987 for the center left-wing periodical called ''2000'e Doğru'' ("Towards 2000") as a permanent political correspondent in Ankara. In 1990, he was appointed as the chief of intelligence reporting of the newspaper. From 1993 to 1994, he worked as news director for the daily ''Aydınlık'' (Enlightenment). After the split of the ''Aydınlık'' group, the forced ban during the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, ''Aydınlık'' was relaunched as a left-wing daily in 1990 not only supported by the Workers' Party (İşçi Partisi) but also by intellectuals and writers who were not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odatv Case
The Ergenekon trials or the Ergenekon conspiracy, were a series of high-profile trials which took place in 2008–2016 in Turkey in which 275 people, including military officers, journalists and opposition lawmakers, all alleged members of Ergenekon, a suspected secularist clandestine organization, were accused of plotting against the Turkish government. The trials resulted in lengthy prison sentences for the majority of the accused. Those sentences were overturned shortly after. Since Istanbul Heavy Penal Court 13 (tr: ''13. İstanbul Ağır Ceza Mahkemesi'') accepted the 2,455-page indictment against 86 defendants in the first case against alleged members of the supposed clandestine organization Ergenekon on 28 July 2008 a further 14 indictments were submitted up until February 2011. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odatv
OdaTV ''(also known as Odatv.com, Odatv or odaTV),'' an online news portal based in Turkey, was founded in 2007. It is one of the most followed news portals in Turkey and according to the Alexa statistics, it is the 119th most visited website in the country (Turkey). The portal was founded by Soner Yalçın and Cüneyt Özdemir. Özdemir soon left after a difference of opinion. OdaTV was described in 2012 by the Committee to Protect Journalists as a portal which is "harshly critical of the government". In the early 2011, Odatv case was initiated as part of the Ergenekon trials, with OdaTV accused of being the "media arm" of the Ergenekon organization. Twelve of its journalists were under indictment in connection with the case, which Reporters without Borders has called "absurd". The court acquitted all journalists in April 2017 after the prosecutors failed to provide enough evidence. On 2019, OdaTV writer Nihat Genç left the newspaper to found his own newspaper Veryansın T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
