Hürriyet Daily News

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Hürriyet Daily News
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
OwnerDemirören Media Group
EditorGökçe Aytulu
FoundedMarch 1961
Political alignmentCentre-right
Historical:
Centre-left
Political liberalism
HeadquartersHürriyet Medya Towers, Güneşli, 34212 Istanbul, Turkey
ISSN1300-0721
Websitehurriyetdailynews.com

The Hürriyet Daily News, formerly Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review and Turkish Daily News, 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 from 2006; both papers were sold to Demirören Holding in 2018, owned by Yildirim Demiroren, a close ally of Erdogan.[1][2]

Ideology

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Hürriyet Daily News has generally taken a secular and liberal or centre-left position on most political issues, in contrast to Turkey's other main English-language daily, the Daily Sabah, which is closely aligned with the Justice and Development Party of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Another conservative competitor, the Gülen movement-run Today's Zaman, was shut down by the government following the 2016 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 the Daily Sabah.[4]

Editor

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The current editor-in-chief is Gökçe Aytulu,[5] who replaced Murat Yetkin (tr) in October 2018.

Columnists

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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 as Mehmet 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]

References

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  1. ^ "New editor-in-chief, CEO take over at daily Hürriyet". Hürriyet Daily News. 18 May 2018. Archived from the original on 24 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Turkey's media mogul built his wealth on the murder of a Greek businessman and the victim's plundered assets - Nordic Monitor". nordicmonitor.com. 5 January 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
  3. ^ Chris Johnston and agencies in Istanbul (27 July 2016). "Turkey coup attempt: arrest warrants issued for former newspaper staff". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  4. ^ Demirören, Erdoğan (18 May 2018). "Chairman Demirören writes on Hürriyet's 'journey of democracy'". Hürriyet Daily News. Archived from the original on 27 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Gökçe Aytulu takes helm at Hürriyet Daily News - Türkiye News". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Opinion". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  7. ^ "NURAY MERT". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  8. ^ "MUSTAFA AKYOL". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  9. ^ "SEMİH İDİZ". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  10. ^ "SEDAT ERGİN". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  11. ^ "Turkish News - Latest News from Turkey". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

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