The ''Hürriyet Daily News'', formerly ''Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review'' and ''Turkish Daily News'', is the oldest current English-language daily in
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
, founded in 1961. The paper was bought by the
Doğan Media Group in 2001 and has been under the media group's flagship ''
Hürriyet
''Hürriyet'' (, ''Liberty'') is a major List of newspapers in Turkey, Turkish newspaper, founded in 1948. it had the highest circulation of any newspaper in Turkey at around 319,000. ''Hürriyet'' combines entertainment with news coverage and ...
'' from 2006; both papers were sold to
Demirören Holding in 2018.
Ideology
''Hürriyet Daily News'' has generally taken a
secular and
liberal or
centre-left position on most political issues, in contrast to Turkey's other main English-language daily, the ''
Daily Sabah'', which is closely aligned with the
Justice and Development Party of
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister of Turkey, prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Jus ...
. Another conservative competitor, the
Gülen movement-run ''
Today's Zaman'', was shut down by the government following the
2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt.
In May 2018, the new Erdoğan-aligned owners appointed a new editor and publisher and stated that they intended to run the paper as an independent, non-partisan voice, in implicit contrast to both its previous secular orientation and the ''Daily Sabah''.
Editor
The current editor-in-chief is
Gökçe Aytulu, who replaced
Murat Yetkin in October 2018.
Columnists
The paper contains domestic, regional, and international news coverage, economic and cultural reporting, as well as regular opinion pieces from leading Turkish journalists and thinkers such as
Mehmet Ali Birand,
,
,
Mustafa Akyol, İlhan Tanir,
,
, Semih İdiz, and former editor David Judson.
References
Newspapers published in Istanbul
1961 establishments in Turkey
Newspapers established in 1961
English-language newspapers published in Turkey
Daily newspapers published in Turkey
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