Cumhuriyet is a centre-left Turkish

Turkey

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 daily newspaper

Newspaper

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, founded on May 7, 1924 by journalist

Journalist

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 Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu

Yunus Nadi Abalioglu

Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu was a renowned Turkish journalist and founder of the newspaper Cumhuriyet.Yunus Nadi was born in 1879 in the Seydiler village of the south Aegean town Fethiye. After primary school in Fethiye, he was schooled on Rhodes. Later on, Yunus Nadi moved to Istanbul, where he...

. Based in Istanbul

Istanbul

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, it has been situated since October 17, 2005 in Mecidiyeköy

Mecidiyeköy

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. Cumhuriyet was the last newspaper to leave the old press district Cağaloğlu. It has also offices in Ankara

Ankara

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 and İzmir

Izmir

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.

Distribution

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

History

Following the death of Yunus Nadi on March 28, 1945 in Geneva

Geneva

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, Switzerland

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, 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. The publisher is currently the renowned political columnist

Columnist

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 İlhan Selçuk

İlhan Selçuk

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, who is also chairman of the board of trustees.

Cumhuriyets office in Istanbul was the site of a molotov attack

Molotov cocktail

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 in 2008.

Notable contributors (past and present)

Supplements

Supplements of the newspaper:

• Strateji (Strategy), Mondays
• Kitap (Book), Thursdays
• Bilim Teknoloji (Science and Technology), Fridays
• Hafta Sonu (Weekend), Saturdays
• Pazar Dergi (Sunday Magazine), Sundays
• Gezi (Travel), every other Wednesday
• Tarım (Agriculture), once a month