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National lottery sees 30 pct drop in ticket sales due to loss of trust after privatization
Kiosks selling national lottery tickets have suffered a 30 percent decline in sales for the New Year’s drawing due to a lack of trust...
Turkey’s army fund seeks to expand into service station business: report
The Turkish army's pension fund OYAK filed a deal with
the local competition regulator to buy Demirören Holding's Total Oil Turkey and
M Oil operations, the...
Critical journalist says Erdoğan ordered her dismissal from CNN Türk
Nevşin Mengü , a
journalist critical of the government who used to work for Turkish broadcaster
CNN Türk, has said she was fired from the TV...
Pro-gov’t Hürriyet fires its ombudsman for criticizing daily’s reporting
Pro-government Hürriyet daily ombudsman Faruk Bildirici was fired on Sunday by management after he refused to stop criticizing the newspaper’s mistakes in reporting and...
Turkey’s football chief to operate biggest sports betting company
The top bid to operate İddaa, Turkey’s only legal sports betting company, has come from a venture including the conglomerate of Turkish Football Federation...
Journalist parts ways with pro-gov’t Hürriyet, citing censorship efforts
Ayşe Baykal, who used to write for the Internet edition of the pro-government Hürriyet daily, announced on Monday that she had parted ways with...
Pro-Erdogan media boss gets special treatment, makes $44 mln windfall profit
Turkey’s Capital Markets Board (SPK) exempted the pro-government Demirören Group from the legal obligation to solicit takeover bids from public shareholders in its purchase...
[OPINION] Turkey’s intelligence agency tapped journalist as asset in CNN Turkish affiliate
OPINION | ABDULLAH BOZKURTThe use of Turkish journalists as assets and media outlets as cover has long been a policy of Turkey’s National Intelligence...
CNN Türk, DHA cut opposition leader’s speech after sale to pro-gov’t group
In a development that fueled concerns that media outlets formerly owned by the Doğan Media Group would give less coverage to Turkey’s opposition after...
Doğan sells book store chain D&R to pro-gov’t Turkuvaz Group
Doğan Holding has sold Turkey’s largest bookstore chain, D&R, to the Turkuvaz Media Group, which is known to be close to Turkey’s ruling Justice...
Doğan says it was his own decision to sell media group to Demirören
One day after news broke about the sale of Turkey’s largest media group, the Doğan Media Group, to the Demirören Group, businessman and honorary...