Love them or hate them, newspapers are really a combination of two things. The first component is the bedrock “institution,” that ideal and set of principles that survive through the years. The second part is the “organism” itself, the living, breathing and constantly innovating beehive of creativity that the staff renews each day — or in the age of interactivity, renews moment by moment. So let us tell you a bit about both elements of the Hrriyet Daily News & Economic Review. In the first sense, they are a newspaper unchanged from the first issue printed on March 15, 1961, in which founder Ilhan evik explained their mission, to “be the world’s window on Turkey.”

evik also emphasized the principles that have served the newspaper for nearly half a century: fairness, impartiality, objectivity. The world and Turkey have changed greatly in the intervening decades, these principles have not. Their editorial policy is independent. You will find all shades of perspective and all interests reflected in their reporting. And in a country of endless diversity, there are few views or opinions that you will not find on their editorial pages. The scope of their mission and the resources we bring to that mission, however, have greatly expanded in recent years. In 2001, the then-Turkish Daily News joined the Dogan Media Group, one of Europe’s largest newspaper groups and by far the biggest in Turkey.

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