''2000'e Doğru'' ( tr, Towards 2000) was a weekly Turkish news magazine. It was published between 1987 and 1992.

History and profile

''2000'e Doğru'' was established in January 1987 by Doğu Perinçek. The publisher was Sistem Yayıncılık. In 1989 it had a circulation of around 22,000 copies making it the second-highest circulation news weekly behind '' Nokta''. Contributors included

Halil Berktay Halil Berktay is a Turkish people, Turkish historian at Ibn Haldun University and was columnist for the daily ''Taraf''. Life and career Berktay was born into an intellectual Turkish communist family. His father, Erdogan Berktay, was a member o ...

, Aziz Nesin, Musa Anter,

Turan Dursun Turan Dursun (1934 – 4 September 1990) was a Turkish author and atheist who was a critic of Islam. A former Muslim cleric and scholar of Shia Islam, he became an atheist during his study of the history of monotheistic religions. Influenced by t ...

and Soner Yalçın. In 1987 editor Fatma Yazici was sentenced to one year and four months for "insulting" President

Kenan Evren Ahmet Kenan Evren (; 17 July 1917 – 9 May 2015) was a Turkish politician and military officer, who served as the seventh President of Turkey from 1980 to 1989. He assumed the post by leading the 1980 military coup. On 18 June 2014, a Turkish ...

.Lois Whitman, Jeri Laber (1987)
State of Flux: Human Rights in Turkey : December 1987 Update
Human Rights Watch, 1 Jan 1987. p24 Within the first two years the magazine had had 28 cases brought against it by the government, and editor Yazici had been sentenced to over eight years in prison. Several 1987 issues repeating statements made by

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, or Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 Surname Law (Turkey), until 1934 ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish Mareşal (Turkey), field marshal, Turkish National Movement, re ...

about autonomy for Kurds were confiscated before publication. The ''2000'e Doğru'' edition of 16 February 1992 reported that eyewitnesses and sympathizers of Kurdish Hizbollah had informed them that members of the organization were trained in the headquarters of Turkey's rapid deployment force ('' Çevik Kuvvet'') in Diyarbakır. Two days after the article was published, its author, Halit Güngen, was killed by unidentified murderers. Human Rights Watch, 16 February 2000
''What is Turkey's Hizbullah?''
The magazine folded in 1992.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:2000'e Dogru 1987 establishments in Turkey 1992 disestablishments in Turkey Defunct political magazines published in Turkey Magazines established in 1987 Magazines disestablished in 1992 Magazines published in Istanbul Turkish-language magazines Weekly news magazines published in Turkey