''Tan'' () was a weekly language newspaper published between 1969 and 1999 in

Pristina Pristina or Prishtina ( , ), . is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative center of the eponymous municipality and District of Pristina, district. In antiquity, the area of Pristina was part of the Dardanian Kingdo ...

, Kosovo. It was one of the Turkish-language publications started in

Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation , p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia , flag_p ...

History and profile

The first issue of ''Tan'' appeared on 1 May 1969. The paper was started by the

League of Communists of Kosovo The League of Communists of Kosovo ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Savez komunista Kosova, Савез комуниста Косова, sh-Latn-Cyrl, SKK, СКК, label=none, separator=/; ) was the Kosovo branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole ...

. It was published by Tan Printing Company. It was first published on a biweekly basis, but later the frequency was switched to weekly. The goal of the newspaper was to transmit cultural identity of the Turkish-origin people in the region to next generations. Şükrü Zeynullah worked for the paper from 1975 to 1981 as a trade director. ''Tan'' published several supplements and books. Some of its supplements were which was first published in 1973 and , a children's magazine, of which the first issue appeared in 1979. It frequently featured literary work by Turkish-origin authors. The paper ceased publication in 1999.

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