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Türkiye (newspaper)

Turkish news website

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ327799 ↗
Source-derived summary

Türkiye (English: Turkey) is a Turkish newspaper owned by İhlas Group. The paper was founded by Enver Ören in 1970 as Hakikat, and was renamed Türkiye in 1972. It sold 119,000 copies in 1985, and 300,000 copies in 1989. Nevzat Yalçıntaş is among the former editors-in-chief of the paper. Notable contributors include Ayhan Songar who published articles from 1989 to 1997 and Rahîm Er. In the late 1990s, the paper was close to the conservative think tank Intellectuals' Hearth.

Ownership

Türkiye's parent company, İhlas Gazetecilik, was floated on the Istanbul Stock Exchange in 2010 (33% of shares, with the remainder owned by İhlas Holding).

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“Türkiye (newspaper)” enters the record as turkish news website. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Türkiye, newspaper and Turkish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1972, 1985, 1989—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-04-22. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Türkiye, newspaper and Turkish.
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“Türkiye (newspaper)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Türkiye, newspaper and Turkish provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q327799. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1972, 1985 and 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Türkiye (newspaper)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.