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7 unusual facts about Hurriyet


Didier Zokora

Zokora was quoted as saying that Emre called him a "fucking nigger"; national papers including Hürriyet blasted Emre and he later received a two-match ban by the Turkish Football Federation following the incident.

Filiz Vural

Filiz participated at a beauty pageant organized by the newspaper Hürriyet, and won the title Miss Turkey 1970.

Hürriyet

Hürriyet has regional offices in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Adana, Antalya and Trabzon, as well as a news network comprising 52 offices and 600 reporters in Turkey and abroad, all affiliated with Doğan News Agency, which primarily serves newspapers and television channels that are under the management of Doğan Media Group (Doğan Yayın Holding).

Joost Lagendijk

On 23 April 2006 the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet reported that Joost Lagendijk was planning to marry Nevin Sungur, an award-winning journalist and reporter for the Turkish channel NTV.

Masri Feki

He is Middle East Pact's founding president and author of numerous articles published in newspapers of the Middle East and North Africa, including Al-Seyassah (Kuwait), Hürriyet (Turkey), Turkish Daily News (Turkey), The Jerusalem Post (Israel), Al-Ahram (Egypt) and El Watan (Algeria).

Timeline of events in Cyprus, 1974

18 July 1974 - The large-circulation Turkish newspaper Hürriyet publishes a vicious anti-Greek poem entitled "Kin" or "Hatred" in English.

Uzel Holding

According to Hürriyet: "The quarrel in the Uzel family over fraud and breaches of confidence" was having "a negative impact on the financial and stock performance of the firm, which was once among the world's top 10 in agricultural machinery production".


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Ali Sabancı

He is married to his schoolmate from university years, Vuslat Doğan Sabancı, daughter of media mogul Aydın Doğan and vice president of Newspaper Hürriyet.

Assassination of Rafic Hariri

On 7 February 2012, Hurriyet reported investigators from the United Nations interviewed Louai Sakka, interested in whether he had played a role in the assassination.

Filiz Ali

She produced music programmes for the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation from 1962 to 1995 and has been the regular music critique for major daily newspapers including Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet, Yeni Yuzyil and Radikal.

Yusuf Akbulut

A native of Anıtlı (Hah), a village in Midyat district, Father Yusuf Akbulut was approached in October 2000 by reporters from the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet and questioned as to his views regarding the Armenian Genocide.


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