Yeni Asır is a daily newspaper that began publication in

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...

on 19 August 1895. Its slogan is "

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 ...

's oldest newspaper". The newspaper started to be published on the Internet in December 1998. It was published in the national press on March 1, 2017. It is the oldest newspaper in Turkey.

History

The newspaper was founded by Arif Bilgin on August 19, 1895, in Thessaloniki under the name Asır and began to be published under the name Yeni Asır on July 22, 1908. After Arif Bilgin's death, the newspaper continued the same line during the period of his sons, Şevket Bilgin, who assumed the joint management.

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