Hürriyet Daily News

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Hürriyet Daily News
31st Jan.jpg
A Daily News front page from January 2012
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner Doğan Media Group
Editor Murat Yetkin
Founded March 1961
Headquarters Hürriyet Medya Towers, Güneşli, 34212 Istanbul, Turkey
ISSN 1300-0721
Official website www.hurriyetdailynews.com

The Hürriyet Daily News, formerly Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review, is the oldest current English-language daily in Turkey, founded in 1961.

The paper was bought by the Doğan Media Group in 2001 and has been under the media group's flagship Hürriyet since 2006.

Contents

[edit] Leadership

The current editor-in-chief is Murat Yetkin, with Taylan Bilgic serving as managing editor.

[edit] Columnists

Alongside domestic and international news coverage, the paper features regular opinion pieces from leading Turkish journalists and thinkers such as Mehmet Ali Birand[1], Soner Çağaptay [2], Nuray Mert [3], Mustafa Akyol[4], İlhan Tanir [5], Burak Bekdil [6], Sedat Ergin [7], Semih İdiz [8], and former editor David Judson [9][10]

[edit] Access

The Daily News headquarters is based at the Doğan Medya Tower in Istanbul, with satellite offices in Ankara, Antalya, and Izmir. It can be read online at hurriyetdailynews.com[11] or in paper format. The paper can be found in the major metropolitan areas of Turkey, such as Istanbul and Ankara, as well as along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. It can even be purchased in places like Zonguldak.

[edit] Competitors

Recent competition to the Daily News arrived in the form of Today's Zaman, an offshoot of Turkish daily Zaman.

[edit] References

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