Milliyet

Milliyet came to publishing life at the Nuri Akça press in Babıali, Istanbul as a daily private newspaper on 3 May 1950. Its owner was Ali Naci Karacan.{{Cite web|url=http://turkey.mom-rsf.org/en/media/detail/outlet/milliyet/|title = Milliyet}} 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 was Abdi İpekçi. İpekçi managed to raise the standards of the Turkish press by introducing his journalistic criteria. On 1 February 1979, İpekçi was murdered by Mehmet Ali Ağca, who would later attempt to assassinate the Pope John Paul II. Between 14 August and 27 August 1983 the paper was temporarily banned by the martial law authorities.{{cite journal|author=David Barchard|title=Western silence on Turkey|journal=Index on Censorship|date=December 1983 |volume=12|issue=6|pages=7–8 |doi=10.1080/03064228308533623|doi-access=free}}

Milliyet is published in the broadsheet format.

In 2001 Milliyet had a circulation of 337,000 copies.{{cite news|author=Adam Smith|title=Europe's Top Papers|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/164161/|access-date=7 February 2015|work=campaign|date=15 November 2002}} According to comScore, Milliyet{{'s}} website is the fifth most visited news website in Europe.[http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2012/1/Nearly_50_Percent_of_Internet_Users_in_Europe_Visit_Newspaper_Sites Nearly 50 Percent of Internet Users in Europe Visit Newspaper Sites], 19 January 2012

In 1979 the founding Karacan family sold the paper to Aydın Doğan. Erdoğan Demirören, who owned 25% of the paper, later also sold his stake to Doğan.Today's Zaman, 29 April 2011, [http://todayszaman.com/news-242334-competition-body-approves-sale-of-milliyet-vatan-dailies-for-74-mln.html Competition body approves sale of Milliyet, Vatan dailies for $74 mln] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213025617/http://todayszaman.com/news-242334-competition-body-approves-sale-of-milliyet-vatan-dailies-for-74-mln.html |date=13 December 2013 }} In October 1998 the paper was briefly sold to Korkmaz Yiğit, before being bought back within weeks when Yiğit's business empire collapsed in the face of unrelated fraud allegations.Hurriyet Daily News, 4 November 1998, [http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/october-crisis-with-damascus-defused-after-ocalan-leaves-syria-the-rise-and-fall-of-korkmaz-yigit.aspx?pageID=438&n=october-crisis-with-damascus-defused-after-ocalan-leaves-syria-the-rise-and-fall-of-korkmaz-yigit-1998-11-04 October: Crisis with Damascus defused after Ocalan leaves Syria; the rise and fall of Korkmaz Yigit]

The paper was purchased by a joint venture of the Demirören Group and Karacan Group in May 2011,Dogan News Agency, 4 May 2011, [http://www.dha.com.tr/haberdetay.asp?Newsid=159756 Milliyet and Vatan papers sold to DK] but after legal and financial issues Karacan sold its stake to Demirören in February 2012.Hurriyet Daily News, 9 February 2012, [http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/karacan-group-execs-arrested-in-media-probe.aspx?pageID=238&nID=13354&NewsCatID=345 Karacan Group execs arrested in media probe]

Since 1994, Milliyet has abandoned its stable, "upmarket" journalism established by Abdi İpekçi for a middle-market editorial line akin to that of Hürriyet. The Internet edition of Milliyet often incorporates sensational material from The Sun and Daily Mail and there is tremendous amount of overlap among the daily coverage, such as identical articles and photographs.

Milliyet has been criticised for having self-censored a column that was critical of the Prime Minister's reaction to a press leak.{{cite web|title=A Special Kind Of Awful – The State Of The Turkish Media|url=http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/turkey/2013/130508A.html|publisher=Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program|access-date=2 June 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131121112102/http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/turkey/2013/130508A.html|archive-date=21 November 2013|df=dmy-all}} The column was frozen out for two weeks and then blanket-refused for publication.{{cite news|title=Turkey's voting for censors|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/24/turkey-voting-censors-hasan-cemal|work=The Observer|access-date=2 June 2013|location=London|author=Peter Preston|date=24 March 2013}}

In early 2012 Milliyet fired Ece Temelkuran, after she had written articles critical of the government's handling of the December 2011 Uludere massacre,Al Akhbar, 6 January 2012, [http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/3124 Firing Turkey's Ece Temelkuran: The Price of Speaking Out] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011233419/http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/3124 |date=11 October 2017 }} and Nuray Mert, after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan publicly criticized her.{{cite news|title=Turks sense dawn of new era of power and confidence|work=BBC News|date=21 November 2011|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15815319|access-date=21 November 2011}}{{cite web|title=Turkish PM targets Economist magazine, journalist Nuray Mert|work=Hurriyet Daily News|date=3 June 2011|url= http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=pm-targets-economist-magazine-journalist-nuray-mert-2011-06-03|access-date=21 November 2011}}{{cite magazine|title=Turkey's Jailed Journalists |author=Dexter Filkins|url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/03/turkeys-jailed-journalists.html|magazine=The New Yorker|date=9 March 2012|access-date=18 March 2012}}

In 2013, Milliyet fired columnists Hasan Cemal and Can Dündar, who had taken critical stances against the AKP government.{{cite news |title=Can Dündar dismissed from daily Milliyet for critical Gezi stance|url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/can-dundar-dismissed-from-daily-milliyet-for-critical-gezi-stance.aspx?pageID=238&nID=51871&NewsCatID=339|newspaper=Hürriyet Daily News|date=1 August 2013|access-date=2 August 2013}}

Milliyet has published several supplements. One of them was Milliyet Çocuk, a children's magazine published as a supplement of the paper between its start in 1972 and 1974 before becoming an independent publication.{{cite journal|author=Deniz Arzuk|title=Milliyet Çocuk and the Making of Children's Literary Culture in Turkey in the 1970s|journal=International Research in Children's Literature|date=2019|volume=12|issue=1

|doi=10.3366/ircl.2019.0291|pages=62–75|s2cid=197723445 |url=https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2019.0291}}

In September 2009, Milliyet opened its digital archive, becoming the first Turkish newspaper to do so.{{cite web|url=http://www.milliyet.com.tr/Arsiv.aspx?aType=ArsivYeni|title=Milliyet Archive|work=Milliyet}}

{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|

• Ahmet Altan
• Duygu Asena
• Hikmet Bilâ
• Mehmet Ali Birand
• Orhan Boran
• Emin Çölaşan
• Can Dündar
• Burçak Evren
• Burhan Felek
• Abdi İpekçi
• İsmail Cem İpekçi
• Halit Kıvanç
• Nuray Mert
• Reha Muhtar
• Altan Öymen
• Çetin Özek
• Peyami Safa
• Derya Sazak
• Erman Şener
• Ece Temelkuran
• Metin Toker
• Rıza Türmen
• Didem Ünsal

}}

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• [http://www.last24.com/?q=Hepsi&s=Milliyet&localtime=%2B2&c=&lang=tr Milliyet news] {{in lang|tr}}
• [http://gazetearsivi.milliyet.com.tr/ Milliyet's digital archive] {{in lang|tr}}
• {{cite web|author=Salih Sarıkaya|url=http://www.salihsarikaya.com/en/turkish-journalist-fired-writing-columns-might-disturb-prime-minister/|date=17 October 2014|title=Turkish Journalist Can Dündar fired for writing columns that might 'disturb' the prime minister from Milliyet Newspaper in Turkey|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021021852/http://www.salihsarikaya.com/en/turkish-journalist-fired-writing-columns-might-disturb-prime-minister/|archive-date=21 October 2014|df=dmy-all}}

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