Cumhuriyet
Turkish newspaper
Cumhuriyet (English: The Republic) is a Turkish nationwide daily newspaper based in Istanbul. It was founded on May 7, 1924 by Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu.
Type | Up-market daily |
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Format | Berliner |
Owner(s) | Cumhuriyet Foundation |
Founder(s) | Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu |
Editor-in-chief | Aykut Karakaya |
Founded | 7 May 1924 |
Political alignment | Centre-left Left-wing politics Secularism/Laïcité Social democracy |
Language | Turkish |
Headquarters | Şişli, Istanbul, Turkey |
Circulation | 43,791 (as of May 2018) |
Website | cumhuriyet |
Cumhuriyet newspaper includes columnists that are generally considered to share social democratic, secularist and republican ideas with its readers. Cumhuriyet is sold about 60,000 everyday.
İlhan Selçuk, the editor of Cumhuriyet arrested by police after the conservative-Islamic government party AKP has wanted to closed.
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