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''Penguen'' ( en, Penguin) was a satirical magazine published in
Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...
and distributed also to
Northern Cyprus Northern Cyprus ( tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs), officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC; tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti, ''KKTC''), is a '' de facto'' state that comprises the northeastern portion of the island of Cyprus. Rec ...
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History and profile

''Penguen'' was founded in 2002 by
Metin Üstündağ Metin is a Turkish given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Tümer Metin (born 1974), Turkish international footballer Given name * Metin Akan (born 1983), Turkish professional footballer * Metin Akpınar (born 1 ...
, Selçuk Erdem, Erdil Yaşaroğlu and Bahadır Baruter.Fazıla Mat, 8 April 2010, balcanicaucaso.org
Turkish humor
/ref> The first issue was published in September 2002. In March 2005 ''Penguen'' was sued by Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician serving as the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as prime minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014 and as mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to ...
for several caricatures of him; the magazine was acquitted. In 2011 contributor Bahadır Baruter "faced a one-year prison sentence for a cartoon that adthe words “There is no God, religion is a lie” on the wall of a mosque." In May 2012 its offices were the subject of an
arson Arson is the crime of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property. Although the act of arson typically involves buildings, the term can also refer to the intentional burning of other things, such as motor vehicles, wate ...
attack. In 2015, two journalists from the magazine were given 11-month prison sentences for comments about Prime Minister Erdoğan. In April 2017 it was announced that ''Penguen'' would be closed after four issues. In a statement, journalists cited the decline in people reading magazines, and the lack of "free space" for journalists in Turkey. The last issue of the magazine was published in May 2017.


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