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''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> made international headlines when it was discovered that the newspaper had fabricated an interview with </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">Noam Chomsky.</span>
''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> made international headlines when it was discovered that the newspaper had fabricated an interview with </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">Noam Chomsky.</span>
==History==
==History==
''Yeni Şafak''<span class="nowrap" style="white-space:nowrap;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;padding-left:0.1em;">'s</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> founding editor was Mehmet Ocaktan</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">. In the beginning, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> was known for harboring both libreal</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> and Islamist</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> columnists. </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> was acquired by Albayrak Holding</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> in 1997, which had close ties with then mayor of Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. After İbrahim Karagül became the editor-in-chief of </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">, the newspaper became a hardline supporter of then prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> More Islamist columnists were employed, while liberals like Kürşat Bumin were fired from the newspaper because of their critical views of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AKP.</span>
''Yeni Şafak''<span class="nowrap" style="white-space:nowrap;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;padding-left:0.1em;">'s</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> founding editor was Mehmet Ocaktan</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">. In the beginning, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> was known for harboring both libreal</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> and Islamist</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> columnists. </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> was acquired by Albayrak Holding</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> in 1997, which had close ties with then mayor of Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. After İbrahim Karagül became the editor-in-chief of </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">, the newspaper became a hardline supporter of then prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> More Islamist columnists were employed, while liberals like Kürşat Bumin were fired from the newspaper because of their critical views of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AKP.</span>
==Controversies==
==Controversies==


===Fabricated Noam Chomsky interview===
===Fabricated Noam Chomsky interview===
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On August 26, </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">Noam Chomsky accused the pro-government </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> newspaper of fabricating parts of an interview that was done with him via email</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">, including inventing questions and answers and altering criticism of Erdoğan's approach to Egypt and Syria into an assertion that Turkey "stood with the oppressed people in Syria and Egypt".</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> The administration of </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> denied the accusation and promised to release the original English content of the emails. However, the released original was full of grammatical mistakes. Later it was found out that </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> used </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">Google Translate to translate fabricated Turkish content into English, and presented the translation as the original interview.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> After the grammatical errors, particularly "milk port", became a sensation on social media, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> finally admitted some parts were fabricated and removed the entire interview from its web site.</span>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On August 26, </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">Noam Chomsky accused the pro-government </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> newspaper of fabricating parts of an interview that was done with him via email</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">, including inventing questions and answers and altering criticism of Erdoğan's approach to Egypt and Syria into an assertion that Turkey "stood with the oppressed people in Syria and Egypt".</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> The administration of </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> denied the accusation and promised to release the original English content of the emails. However, the released original was full of grammatical mistakes. Later it was found out that </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> used </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">Google Translate to translate fabricated Turkish content into English, and presented the translation as the original interview.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> After the grammatical errors, particularly "milk port", became a sensation on social media, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> finally admitted some parts were fabricated and removed the entire interview from its web site.</span>
===Disinformation during Gezi Protests===
===Disinformation during Gezi Protests===
''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> newspaper was a primary source of disinformation during </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">2013–14 protests in Turkey. According to a report published by </span>''Hrant Dink Foundation''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> was the primary newspaper generating hate speech against Gezi protestors.</span>
''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> newspaper was a primary source of disinformation during </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">2013–14 protests in Turkey. According to a report published by </span>''Hrant Dink Foundation''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> was the primary newspaper generating hate speech against Gezi protestors.</span>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On July 14 </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> published an article, called "The Horrible Istanbul Plan of the Gezi Protestors", on their website that claimed that Gezi protestors were conspiring to undermine the government by wasting water from the reservoirs supplying Istanbul.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> After the article became a source of mocking nationwide, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> removed the article from their web site.</span>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On July 14 </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> published an article, called "The Horrible Istanbul Plan of the Gezi Protestors", on their website that claimed that Gezi protestors were conspiring to undermine the government by wasting water from the reservoirs supplying Istanbul.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> After the article became a source of mocking nationwide, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> removed the article from their web site.</span>
===Other disinformation incidents===
===Other disinformation incidents===
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On January 15, 2016, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> published a video purportedly showing live audience members of the prime-time </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">Beyaz Show talk show chanting slogans in support of outlawed Kurdish leader </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abdullah_Murado%C4%9Flu&action=edit&redlink=1 Abdullah Öcalan]. <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">British investigative news agency D8 News</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> published a</span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> forensic analysis demonstrating that the audio track was modified before publication, adding voices sampled from an unrelated protest.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> The article also presented evidence that </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> editors likely attempted to cover up their claims rather than issuing a formal retraction. The falsification incident was subsequently corroborated and covered by other news outlets in Turkey.</span>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On January 15, 2016, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> published a video purportedly showing live audience members of the prime-time </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">Beyaz Show talk show chanting slogans in support of outlawed Kurdish leader </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abdullah_Murado%C4%9Flu&action=edit&redlink=1 Abdullah Öcalan]. <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">British investigative news agency D8 News</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> published a</span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> forensic analysis demonstrating that the audio track was modified before publication, adding voices sampled from an unrelated protest.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> The article also presented evidence that </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> editors likely attempted to cover up their claims rather than issuing a formal retraction. The falsification incident was subsequently corroborated and covered by other news outlets in Turkey.</span>
===Anti-Semitism===
===Anti-Semitism===
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On July 11, 2014, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> columnist </span>''İbrahim Sancak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> resorted to hate speech against Jews</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">.</span>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On July 11, 2014, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> columnist </span>''İbrahim Sancak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> resorted to hate speech against Jews</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">.</span>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On July 23 and 30 2014, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> columnist </span>''İbrahim Tenekeci''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> resorted to hate speech against Jews</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> and identified them as "eternal pain of humanity".</span>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On July 23 and 30 2014, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> columnist </span>''İbrahim Tenekeci''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> resorted to hate speech against Jews</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> and identified them as "eternal pain of humanity".</span>
===Anti-LGBT===
===Anti-LGBT===
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On June 6, 2012, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> columnist </span>''A. Fuat Erdoğan''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> identified homosexuality as perversion.</span>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On June 6, 2012, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> columnist </span>''A. Fuat Erdoğan''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> identified homosexuality as perversion.</span>


<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On May 13, 2013, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> columnist </span>''Yusuf Kaplan''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> identified sexual identities other than heterosexuality as perversion.</span>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On May 13, 2013, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> columnist </span>''Yusuf Kaplan''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> identified sexual identities other than heterosexuality as perversion.</span>
===Anti-Abortion===
===Anti-Abortion===
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On June 6, 2012, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> columnist </span>''A. Fuat Erdoğan''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> resorted to hate speech against pro-abortion women.</span>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On June 6, 2012, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> columnist </span>''A. Fuat Erdoğan''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> resorted to hate speech against pro-abortion women.</span>
===Attacks on journalists===
===Attacks on journalists===
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On October 12, 2014, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> columnist </span>''Cem Küçük''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> threatened journalists Ahmet Hakan </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">and Fatih Altaylı</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> saying "They will pay a heavy price for treason".</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> </span>''Cem Küçük''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">compared those journalists to </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">Julian Assange, whom he identified as a "So called journalist who published disgusting articles."</span>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On October 12, 2014, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> columnist </span>''Cem Küçük''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> threatened journalists Ahmet Hakan </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">and Fatih Altaylı</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> saying "They will pay a heavy price for treason".</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> </span>''Cem Küçük''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">compared those journalists to </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">Julian Assange, whom he identified as a "So called journalist who published disgusting articles."</span>


<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On November 11, 2014, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> columnist </span>''Cem Küçük''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> threatened Doğan Media Group</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> CEO Aydın Doğan</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">. He said if Aydın Doğan does not fire journalists like Ahmet Hakan</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">, it will not be possible for Aydın Doğan to carry out some planned construction projects. He added "Aydın Doğan's future is in his own hands now."</span>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On November 11, 2014, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> columnist </span>''Cem Küçük''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> threatened Doğan Media Group</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> CEO Aydın Doğan</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">. He said if Aydın Doğan does not fire journalists like Ahmet Hakan</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">, it will not be possible for Aydın Doğan to carry out some planned construction projects. He added "Aydın Doğan's future is in his own hands now."</span>
==Sources==
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeni_Şafak
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