Sabah (newspaper)

Turkish daily newspaper

Not to be confused with Daily Sabah.

Sabah

Type| Daily newspaper
Format| Berliner
Owner(s)| Turkuvaz Media Group
Founder(s)| Dinç Bilgin
Publisher| Kalyon Group
Editor-in-chief| Erdal Şafak
Associate editor| Metin Yüksel
Founded| 22 April 1985; 40 years ago (1985-04-22)
Political alignment| Erdoğanism
Social conservatism
Hard Euroscepticism
Historical
Liberal conservatism
Kemalism
Economic liberalism
Liberalism
Language| Turkish
Headquarters| Beşiktaş
City| Istanbul
Country| Turkey
Circulation|  305.714[1]
Sister newspapers| Yeni Asır, Takvim, Fotomaç
Website| www.sabah.com.tr

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Sabah is a Turkish daily newspaper, with a circulation of around 330,000 as of 2011. Its name means "morning" in Turkish.

The newspaper was founded in İzmir by Dinç Bilgin on 22 April 1985.[2]

In 2007, the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seized the newspaper, citing a legal document that had not been disclosed to authorities when Sabah was sold in 2001. Ownership of the newspaper was given to the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund of Turkey. Some of the newspaper's staffers were fired, and the paper was then sold to the Turkuvaz Media Group belonging to Çalık Holding whose CEO, Berat Albayrak, is the son-in-law of Erdoğan and whose chairman, Ahmet Çalık, has been described as a "close associate" of Erdoğan.[3] The $1.1bn sale aroused substantial controversy in Turkey, not least because it was partially financed by $750m of loans from two state banks, VakıfBank and Halkbank,[4] and was sold for the minimum price, with Çalık Holding the sole bidder.[5] Before the 2007 seizing, it was a pro-Kemalist, liberal newspaper with its political position being close to centre-right.

According to Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, who was Sabah's Ankara bureau chief until the takeover, from then on the newspaper took on "an unwavering pro-government line."[6]

The Kalyon Group took over the newspaper in 2013.[7]

Kalyon Group is the current publisher, while Erdal Şafak is the editor-in-chief.[8]

Sabah published The New York Times International Weekly on Sundays from 2009 to 2014. This 8-page supplement featured a selection of articles from The New York Times translated into Turkish. The partnership with The New York Times was terminated in 2014 without any formal explanation given.

## Notable contributors (past and present)

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* Engin Ardıç (1952–2023), journalist
* Haşmet Babaoğlu [tr] (born 1955), journalist
* Mehmet Barlas [tr] (1942–2023), columnist
* Mehmet Ali Birand (1941–2013), journalist
* Yavuz Donat [tr] (born 1942), journalist
* Salih Memecan (born 1952), cartoonist
* Hıncal Uluç (1939–2022), journalist
* Didem Ünsal (born 1966), journalist
* Ahmet Vardar (1937–2010), journalist

## References

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1. ^ "Newspaper Circulation Table". Medyatava.com. 2014-11-10. Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2014-11-17.
2. ^ Gholamali Haddad Adel; Mohammad Jafar Elmi; Hassan Taromi-Rad (31 August 2012). Periodicals of the Muslim World: An Entry from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam. EWI Press. p. 269\. ISBN 978-1-908433-10-7. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
3. ^ The Economist, 8 May 2008, Circulation wars
4. ^ Çalık Holding press release, 22 April 2008, ÇALIK HOLDING ACQUIRES ATV-SABAH
5. ^ Reuters, 12 January 2008, Turkey eyes reform of media ownership law -paper
6. ^ Turkey's War on the Press, Asli Aydintasbas, The Wall Street Journal, 18 September 2009
7. ^ "Turkish media group Sabah-ATV sold to Kalyon group". Retrieved 6 August 2014.
8. ^ "Künye". Sabah (in Turkish). Retrieved 15 July 2011.

## External links

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* Official website (in Turkish)
* Sabah Europe (in Turkish)
* Sabah Deutsch Archived 2014-09-25 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
* The newspaper's web site (in English)
* https://twitter.com/asliaydintasbas
* Today's Sabah front page at the Freedom Forum website

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