''2000'e Doğru'' () was a weekly Turkish

news magazine A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published magazine, radio, or television program, usually published weekly, consisting of articles about current events. News magazines generally discuss stories in greater depth than newspapers or new ...

. It was published between 1987 and 1992.

History and profile

''2000'e Doğru'' was established in January 1987 by

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. 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,

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

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.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

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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 (''

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'') in

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. Two days after the article was published, its author, Halit Güngen, was killed by unidentified murderers.

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, 16 February 2000
''What is Turkey's Hizbullah?''
The magazine folded in 1992.

References

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