Milliyet

''Milliyet'' ( Turkish for "''nationality''") is a daily newspaper published in Istanbul, Turkey.

History and profile

''Milliyet'' came to publishing life at the Nuri Akça press in Babıali, Istanbul as a daily private newspaper on 3 May 1950. Its owner was Ali Naci Karacan. After his death in 1955 the paper was published by his son, Encüment Karacan.

For a number of years the person who made his mark on the paper as the editor-in-chief was Abdi İpekçi. İpekçi managed to raise the standards of the Turkish press by introducing his journalistic criteria. On 1 February 1979, İpekçi was murdered by Mehmet Ali Ağca, who would later attempt to assassinate the Pope John Paul II. Between 14 August and 27 August 1983 the paper was temporarily banned by the martial law authorities.

''Milliyet'' is published in the broadsheet format.

In 2001 ''Milliyet'' had a circulation of 337,000 copies. According to comScore, ''Milliyet'' website is the fifth most visited news website in Europe.

Ownership

In 1979 the founding Karacan family sold the paper to Aydın Doğan. Erdoğan Demirören, who owned 25% of the paper, later also sold his stake to Doğan. In October 1998 the paper was briefly sold to Korkmaz Yiğit, before being bought back within weeks when Yiğit's business empire collapsed in the face of unrelated fraud allegations.'' Hurriyet Daily News'', 4 November 1998
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The paper was purchased by a joint venture of the Demirören Group and Karacan Group in May 2011, but after legal and financial issues Karacan sold its stake to Demirören in February 2012.

Editorial line

Since 1994, ''Milliyet'' has abandoned its stable, "upmarket" journalism established by Abdi İpekçi for a middle-market editorial line akin to that of Hürriyet. The Internet edition of ''Milliyet'' often incorporates sensational material from ''The Sun'' and ''Daily Mail'' and there is tremendous amount of overlap among the daily coverage, such as identical articles and photographs.

''Milliyet'' has been criticised for having self-censored a column that was critical of the Prime Minister's reaction to a press leak. The column was frozen out for two weeks and then blanket-refused for publication.

In early 2012 ''Milliyet'' fired Ece Temelkuran, after she had written articles critical of the government's handling of the December 2011 Uludere massacre, and Nuray Mert, after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan publicly criticized her.

In 2013, ''Milliyet'' fired columnists Hasan Cemal and Can Dündar, who had taken critical stances against the AKP government.

Supplements

''Milliyet'' has published several supplements. One of them was '' Milliyet Çocuk'', a children's magazine published as a supplement of the paper between its start in 1972 and 1974 before becoming an independent publication.

Digital archives

In September 2009, ''Milliyet'' opened its digital archive, becoming the first Turkish newspaper to do so.

Notable people

See also

* List of newspapers in Turkey

References

External links

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Milliyet news


Milliyet's digital archive

* {{cite web, author=Salih Sarıkaya, url=http://www.salihsarikaya.com/en/turkish-journalist-fired-writing-columns-might-disturb-prime-minister/, date=17 October 2014, title=Turkish Journalist Can Dündar fired for writing columns that might 'disturb' the prime minister from Milliyet Newspaper in Turkey, url-status=dead, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021021852/http://www.salihsarikaya.com/en/turkish-journalist-fired-writing-columns-might-disturb-prime-minister/, archive-date=21 October 2014, df=dmy-all

1926 establishments in Turkey
Newspapers established in 1950
Newspapers published in Istanbul
Turkish-language newspapers
Nationalist newspapers
Daily newspapers published in Turkey