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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Demirören Holding |
| Founded | February 11, 1926; 99 years ago (1926-02-11) |
| Political alignment | Conservatism Turkish nationalism Historically: Kemalism, Secularism, Liberalism |
| Language | Turkish |
| Headquarters | Bağcılar |
| City | Istanbul |
| Country | Turkey |
| Circulation | 182,955 (26 January-1 February 2015)[1] |
| Website | www |
Milliyet (Turkish for "nationality") is adaily newspaper published inIstanbul,Turkey.
Milliyet came to publishing life at the Nuri Akça press inBabıali,Istanbul as a daily private newspaper on 3 May 1950. Its owner wasAli Naci Karacan.[2] 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 wasAbdi İpekçi. İpekçi managed to raise the standards of the Turkish press by introducing his journalistic criteria. On 1 February 1979, İpekçi was murdered byMehmet Ali Ağca, who would later attempt to assassinate thePope John Paul II. Between 14 August and 27 August 1983 the paper was temporarily banned by the martial law authorities.[3]
Milliyet is published in thebroadsheet format.[4]
In 2001Milliyet had a circulation of 337,000 copies.[4] According tocomScore,Milliyet's website is the fifth most visited news website in Europe.[5]
In 1979 the founding Karacan family sold the paper toAydın Doğan.Erdoğan Demirören, who owned 25% of the paper, later also sold his stake to Doğan.[6] In October 1998 the paper was briefly sold toKorkmaz Yiğit, before being bought back within weeks when Yiğit's business empire collapsed in the face of unrelated fraud allegations.[7]
The paper was purchased by a joint venture of theDemirören Group andKaracan Group in May 2011,[8] but after legal and financial issues Karacan sold its stake to Demirören in February 2012.[9]
Since 1994,Milliyet has abandoned its stable, "upmarket" journalism established by Abdi İpekçi for amiddle-market editorial line akin to that ofHürriyet. The Internet edition ofMilliyet often incorporates sensational material fromThe Sun andDaily Mail and there is tremendous amount of overlap among the daily coverage, such as identical articles and photographs.
Milliyet has been criticised for havingself-censored a column that was critical of the Prime Minister's reaction to a press leak.[10] The column was frozen out for two weeks and then blanket-refused for publication.[11]
In early 2012Milliyet firedEce Temelkuran, after she had written articles critical of the government's handling of the December 2011Uludere massacre,[12] andNuray Mert, after Turkish Prime MinisterRecep Tayyip Erdoğan publicly criticized her.[13][14][15]
In 2013,Milliyet fired columnistsHasan Cemal andCan Dündar, who had taken critical stances against theAKP government.[16]
Milliyet has published several supplements. One of them wasMilliyet Çocuk, a children's magazine published as a supplement of the paper between its start in 1972 and 1974 before becoming an independent publication.[17]
In September 2009,Milliyet opened its digital archive, becoming the first Turkish newspaper to do so.[18]
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