Cumhuriyet Newspaper Turkey


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Cumhuriyet Newspaper Turkey (English: The Republic) is a centre-left Turkish daily newspaper, founded on May 7, 1924 by journalist Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu. Based in Istanbul, it has been situated since October 17, 2005 in Şişli. Cumhuriyet was the last newspaper to leave the old press district Cağaloğlu. It has also offices in Ankara and İzmir.

The circulation figure is around 58,000 copies as of 2005. Since May 7, 1998 the newspaper can be read also on the Internet.

Following the death of Yunus Nadi on March 28, 1945 in Geneva, Switzerland, Cumhuriyet was owned by his eldest son Nadir Nadi until his death on August 20, 1991. Nadir Nadi’s wife Berin then published the newspaper. Cumhuriyet is owned by the Cumhuriyet Foundation since the death of Berin Nadi on November 5, 2001. One of its publishers was the renowned political columnist İlhan Selçuk, who was also chairman of the board of trustees until he died in 2010.

Cumhuriyet’s office in Istanbul was the site of a molotov attack in 2008.