''BirGün'' (''One Day'') is an

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-based Turkish

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daily. The paper was founded in 2004 by a group of Turkish intellectuals. The most important point of the newspaper is that it is not owned by any parent company or conglomerate. Since its foundation, the newspaper had to face serious pressures from publishing trusts, mainly to affiliated with Doğan Media Group that owns the vast majority of the market. Whereas most of the newspapers in

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pay paper and publishing cost as installments, ''BirGün'' had to pay in cash. In order to afford the costs, the newspaper first launched a subscription campaign, then raised its price to 0.75 TL. The price was 1 TL in 2012 and 1,5 TL in Summer 2015 while also costs 40

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(0,4 TL) on universities in Turkey. ''BirGün'' 's sales have tripled since 2013, especially after the

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, reaching 25,000 copies.

Hrant Dink Hrant Dink (; Western ; 15 September 1954 – 19 January 2007) was a Turkish-Armenian intellectual, editor-in-chief of ''Agos'', journalist, and columnist. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper ''Agos'', Dink was a ...

, who was murdered in 2007, was also one of ''BirGün'' 's writers. Most of the ''BirGün'' columnists are members or sympathizers of the socialist Left Party (SOL), formerly known as the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP), which is a member of

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and one of the founders of

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Columnists

Ataol Behramoğlu Ataol Behramoğlu (born April 13, 1942) is a prominent Turkish poet, author, and Russian-into-Turkish literary translator. Life Ataol Behramoğlu was born on April 13, 1942, in Istanbul. He wrote poems in honour of his father Hikmet Bahramoglu, ...

* Korkut Boratav * *

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Fikri Sağlar Fikri Sağlar (born 1953) is a Turkish social democrat politician. He was Minister of Culture in the early 1990s, and a member of the parliamentary commission which investigated the Susurluk scandal. He has been a columnist for ''Birgün''. In ...

* Süreyya Evren * *

Zeynep Kuray Zeynep Kuray (born 1978) is a Turkish people, Turkish journalist. As of 2015, she wrote for ''BirGün'' and the Firat News Agency (ANF). She was kept under arrest between December 2011 and April 2013 as a part of the KCK investigation and is a reci ...

* Sabri Kuşkonmaz * Oğuzhan Müftüoğlu * Sırrı Süreyya Önder * Ece Temelkuran * Güven Gürkan Öztan * * *

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