Thursday, July 21, 2011

Who is who in Turkish media


The number of periodicals published in Turkey (including weekly publications) is 5,665.[1]
  

There are about 2,500 newspapers currently circulating in Turkey, including 55 national and 23 regional newspapers. National newspapers and broadcasting companies are based in Istanbul and Ankara.

The control of the media is in the hands of large multi-sectoral groups - Doğan Media Group, Turkuvaz, Ciner Group, Çukurova Group, Doğuş Group, and Feza Group, while the distribution of the print media is controlled by Doğan Group’s Yay-Sat and Turkuvaz Group’s Turkuvaz Dağıtım Pazarlama.  



The leading newspapers (with respect to average sales) are Zaman, Posta, Hürriyet, Sabah, Sözcü and Habertürk.

Although its power has declined, Doğan Media Group is the largest and the most prominent media giant in Turkey. Despite government pressures, it still controls a number of high-circulation newspapers - Hürriyet, Radikal, Posta, English-language Hürriyet Daily News, and Fanatik. 

Almost the entire remaining part of the media is owned by pro-AKP businesses and maintains a pro-government slant to curry favor with AKP.

Turkuvaz Media Group is owned by Çalık Holding, and Prime Minister Erdoğan's son-in-law is the CEO of Çalık Holding.The newspapers owned by this group are Sabah, Takvim, Fotomaç and Yeni Asır. 

Ciner Group, the former owner of Sabah, launched Habertürk in 2009.

Feza Group, which has close connections with the Islamic sect leader Fethullah Gülen, controls Zaman and English-language Today's Zaman.

Akşam, Tercüman and Güneş belong to Çukurova Group

Daily newspaper Star is owned by the businessman Ethem Sancak

Albayrak business group owns Islamic-oriented Yeni Şafak. Other Islamic oriented papers are  Yeni Akit and Milli Gazete.

Taraf daily launched in 2007 by several prominent journalists and intellectuals is known as a critic of the army and is pro-Kurdish.  

Staunch Kemalists and nationalist status-quo groups in turn publish newspapers like Cumhuriyet, Sözcü, Yeni Çağ and Aydınlık. They are harsh critics of the government.




Monday, July 11, 2011

List of Turkish newspapers by circulation

Newspaper
Circulation
1
Zaman
1.096.391
2
Posta
                436.694
3
Hürriyet
387.165
4
Sabah
311.892
5
Sözcü
                283.090
6
Fotomaç
217.568
7
Habertürk
                203.562
8
Fanatik
197.349
9
Türkiye
                180.776
10
Milliyet
176.125
11
Vatan
132.901
12
Star
129.970
13
Takvim
105.983
14
Bugün
103.244
15
Akşam
102.651
16
Yeni Şafak
102.409
17
Güneş
101.982
18
Açık Mert Korkusuz
76.556
19
Yeni Mesaj
75.805
20
Taraf
70.269
21
Aydınlık
58.956
22
Yurt
52.568
23
Yeni Çağ
51.844
24
Yeni Asya
51.023
25
Yeni Akit
50.988
26
Şok
50.836
27
Cumhuriyet
50.745
28
Milli Gazete
31.145
29
Milat
30.006
30
Yeni Asır
26.455
31
Radikal
24.384
32
Sol Gazetesi
                14.378
33
Today’s Zaman
11.441
34
Birgün
8.142
35
Ortadoğu
7.262
36
Evrensel
5.950
37
HürriyetDailyNews
5.658
38
Hürses
2.141



(06.05.2013 - 12.05.2013)

More about circulation numbers
 
Sözcü daily newspaper claims that official circulation figures don’t reflect the truth about the popularity of Turkish newspapers.

Instead, the paper ranks newspapers according to their newsstand sales. Here is the ranking that appeared on the top page of the newspaper on June 8, 2011:  

Newspaper                                  Newsstand sales
May 30 and June 5, 2011
Posta                                                      461,158
Hürriyet                                                   442,661
Sabah                                                     364,762
Sözcü                                                     251,871
Habertürk                                                242,489
Milliyet                                                    140,099
Vatan                                                      116,754
Takvim                                                    110,886
Güneş                                                     102,624
Radikal                                                     63,304
Cumhuriyet                                               54,430
Taraf                                                         53,959
Akşam                                                      52,731 (+ 84,000 copies distributed free of charge together race and      sports supplement İddia. Akşam discontinued the publication of the supplement in June 2011.)[1]
Yeniçağ                                                    51,852
Yeni Akit                                                  44,538
Zaman                                                      29,397 (+ 936,173 copies distributed to subscribers. According to an article published by Ortadoğu daily newspaper, Zaman daily is distributed to government offices, schools and local entrepreneurs, and the distribution is funded by members of Fethullah Gülen congregation.)[2]
Star                                                         25,314 (+ 139,215 copies distributed to subscribers)
Yeni Şafak                                               18,438 (+ 85,343 copies distributed to subscribers)
Bugün                                                      16,017 (+ 69,000 copies distributed to subscribers)
Türkiye                                                      9,023 (+ 137,746 copies distributed to subscribers)
                                                            










































































































 (27.06.2011 - 03.07.2011)

 More about circulation numbers
 
Sözcü daily newspaper claims that official circulation figures don’t reflect the truth about the popularity of Turkish newspapers.

Instead, the paper ranks newspapers according to their newsstand sales. Here is the ranking that appeared on the top page of the newspaper on June 8, 2011:  

Newspaper                                  Newsstand sales
May 30 and June 5, 2011
Posta                                                      461,158
Hürriyet                                                   442,661
Sabah                                                     364,762
Sözcü                                                     251,871
Habertürk                                                242,489
Milliyet                                                    140,099
Vatan                                                      116,754
Takvim                                                    110,886
Güneş                                                     102,624
Radikal                                                     63,304
Cumhuriyet                                               54,430
Taraf                                                         53,959
Akşam                                                      52,731 (+ 84,000 copies distributed free of charge together race and      sports supplement İddia. Akşam discontinued the publication of the supplement in June 2011.)[1]
Yeniçağ                                                    51,852
Yeni Akit                                                  44,538
Zaman                                                      29,397 (+ 936,173 copies distributed to subscribers. According to an article published by Ortadoğu daily newspaper, Zaman daily is distributed to government offices, schools and local entrepreneurs, and the distribution is funded by members of Fethullah Gülen congregation.)[2]
Star                                                         25,314 (+ 139,215 copies distributed to subscribers)
Yeni Şafak                                               18,438 (+ 85,343 copies distributed to subscribers)
Bugün                                                      16,017 (+ 69,000 copies distributed to subscribers)
Türkiye                                                      9,023 (+ 137,746 copies distributed to subscribers)