Evrensel

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Evrensel
Type Daily newspaper
Owner(s)Kürşat Yılmaz
Founded7 June 1995;27 years ago (1995-06-07)
Political alignment Socialism
Leftism
Secularism
Language Turkish
Headquarters Şirinevler, Istanbul, Turkey
Website evrensel.net

Evrensel (English: Universal) is a Turkish daily newspaper. [1]

Contents

History and profile

Evrensel was founded on 7 June 1995. The issues captured and written are from a socialist perspective. The paper is different from other Turkish newspapers in that it presents an in-depth research into issues surrounding the workers unions. [1] In 2017, newspaper started an English version of news. [2]

Incidents

Metin Göktepe, the 27-year-old journalist whose death in police custody in 1996 caused public protests and outcry, was on duty as a reporter for Evrensel on the day of his detention and murder. [3] [4]

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  4. Basın Almanağı 2017: Press Almanac 2017 in Turkey (in Turkish). Istanbul, Turkey: DİSK Basın-İş. p. 12.