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| Type | Dailynewspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Demirören Media Group |
| Editor | Gökçe Aytulu |
| Founded | March 1961 |
| Political alignment | Centre-right Historical: Centre-left Political liberalism |
| Headquarters | Hürriyet Medya Towers, Güneşli, 34212Istanbul, Turkey |
| ISSN | 1300-0721 |
| Website | hurriyetdailynews |
TheHürriyet Daily News, formerlyHürriyet Daily News and Economic Review andTurkish Daily News, is the oldest current English-language daily inTurkey, founded in 1961. The paper was bought by theDoğan Media Group in 2001 and has been under the media group's flagshipHürriyet from 2006; both papers were sold toDemirören Holding in 2018, owned by Yildirim Demiroren, a close ally of Erdogan.[1][2]
Hürriyet Daily News has generally taken asecular andliberal orcentre-left position on most political issues, in contrast to Turkey's other main English-language daily, theDaily Sabah, which is closely aligned with theJustice and Development Party ofRecep Tayyip Erdoğan. Another conservative competitor, theGülen movement-runToday's Zaman, was shut down by the government following the2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt.[3]
In May 2018, the new Erdoğan-aligned owners appointed a new editor and publisher and stated that they intended to run the paper as an independent, non-partisan voice, in implicit contrast to both its previous secular orientation and theDaily Sabah.[4]
The current editor-in-chief isGökçe Aytulu,[5] who replacedMurat Yetkin [tr] in October 2018.
The paper contains domestic, regional, and international news coverage, economic and cultural reporting, as well as regular opinion pieces from leading Turkish journalists and thinkers such asMehmet Ali Birand,[6]Soner Çağaptay,[6]Nuray Mert,[7]Mustafa Akyol,[8] İlhan Tanir,[6]Burak Bekdil,[6]Sedat Ergin,[9] Semih İdiz,[10] and former editor David Judson.[6][11]
