Today's Zaman
Today's Zaman, title of the Sunday edition: Sunday 's Zaman, an English-language daily newspaper in Turkey. She is a sister publication of the Turkish-speaking Zaman and heard how this the media group Feza Gazetecilik A.Ş., which is close to the Gülen movement.
Establishment and organization
At its inception in January 2007, Today was 's Zaman, the third English-language newspaper in Turkey, according to the Turkish Daily News, founded in 1961 (which belongs since 2001 to the Dogan Media Group and since 2008 Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review called) and The New Anatolian (2005 to 2007). The economic competition and ideological differences between Hurriyet Daily News and Today's Zaman correspond to those of Turkish-language newspapers between the respective associated Hürriyet and Zaman. The Today's Zaman ( Zaman and and the Feza Media Group ) are considered supporters of the Gülen movement. At the inaugural reception of the Today's Zaman in addition to numerous ministers from the ACP also Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan were present who had been presented by Feza CEO before the foundation of newspaper designs. The published daily since January 16, 2007 Today's Zaman has its own chief and about 40 editors. Editor in chief since inception, Bulent Kenes, who was previously editor of the daily newspaper Bugün. The edition, which was in April 2007, about 11,000, is located in April 2011 at 7,026. Today's Zaman, together with Turkish newspaper Zaman, the only member of the International Newspaper Color Quality Club is.
Profile and content
Today's Zaman related news and content from the Turkish newspaper Zaman and the news agency Cihan Haber Ajansi, which also belongs to the Feza Media Group. According to Chief Editor Kenes tracked Today's Zaman "liberal and democratic editorial line, under the condition that the sensitivities of religious groups are respected. " The "black propaganda from pro-Israeli circles ", according to the English-language Today's Zaman only a more liberal and democratic editorial line heuchele when the Turkish newspaper Zaman sister, had not a shred of evidence. The most important journalists of the Today's Zaman on political and cultural issues are Zaman Editor in Chief Ekrem Dumanlı, Kerim Balci, Andrew Finkel, Nicole Pope and Ali Bulac, which is considered representative of the intellectual strand of the Turkish Islamism our day. Other columnists are Mümtazer Türköne, Charlotte Mcpherson, Klaus Jürgens and Kathy Hamilton. The director of the news agency Cihan, Abdul Hamit Bilici, also writes regularly as a columnist in the newspaper Zaman and Today's Zaman on foreign policy issues. Occasionally writes also the chief editor of Agos Armenian - Turkish:, Etyen Mahcupyan article. The former Dutch MEP Joost Lagendijk published in October 2010 columns in the Today's Zaman and Zaman.
During the controversy surrounding a Gülen - critical manuscript of journalists Ahmet Şık in April 2011, the columnist Andrew Finkel was fired when he filed his column in the "aggressive pursuit of people write books ," complained and reiterated that it was " not a crime to write books that attack the Gülen movement. " Editor in Chief Kenes declared that Finkel had been dismissed because his articles have repeatedly objected to the editorial line, unfortunately Finkel has "come under the influence of strong and dark propaganda."
Sunday 's Zaman
In the Sunday edition under the title of Sunday 's Zaman newspaper continuing its focus on background analysis, commentary, features and reports of cultural and social events and entertainment.