Yeni Ülke
Typenewspaper
Founded20 October 1990[1]
LanguageTurkish
Ceased publication1993
HeadquartersIstanbul, Turkey

Yeni Ülke (New Land) was a Turkish pro-Kurdish newspaper. It was founded in October 1990 as a weekly newspaper,[2] and in 1993 merged with the daily Özgür Gündem. The motivation for the establishment for the newspaper came mainly from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and PKK members wrote several columns and articles for the newspaper.[2] The newspaper was soon popular and had a wide readership, which reportedly reached 50'000.[2]

In 1992/3 a number of its contributors (included Musa Anter, assassinated September 1992) were assassinated.

On 24 February 1992 Yeni Ülke journalist Cengiz Altun was assassinated. He had previously received death threats, and had written an article on the Counterguerrilla in the 2–8 February issue.[3] Yeni Ülke's Mecit Akgün was found hanged to an electric pole on 2 June, by PKK according to a note left on the scene.[4][5] Journalist Yahya Orhan, who wrote for Özgür Gündem and Yeni Ülke, was assassinated on 31 July 1992.[6] Kemal Kılıç, a former correspondent for Özgür Gündem then writing for Yeni Ülke, was assassinated on 18 February 1993.[4] Some of these assassinations were later mentioned in the 1998 Prime Ministry report into the Susurluk scandal, in a censored section later leaked to the press.[7]

In 1999 the European Court of Human Rights overturned a conviction under Article 312 relating to a July 1991 article published in Yeni Ülke.[8]

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References

  1. ↑ yeniozgurpolitika.org, 10 May 2012, 'Susturulamayanlar'ın tarihi kitaplaştı Archived 2018-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 3 Marcus, Aliza (August 2007). Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence. NYU Press. pp. 189–190. ISBN 978-0-8147-5711-6.
  3. ↑ Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Refworld | Journalists Killed in 1992 - Motive Confirmed: Cengiz Altun". Refworld. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
  4. 1 2 Whitman, Lois; Watch, Helsinki (1993). The Kurds of Turkey: Killings, Disappearances and Torture. Human Rights Watch. pp. 18–19. ISBN 978-1-56432-096-4.
  5. ↑ "UA 308/91 - Turkey: fear of torture: Mecit Akgun and about 100 others, names not known". Amnesty International. Archived from the original on 2018-11-22. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  6. ↑ batmanpostasigazetesi, 31 July 2012, Gazeteci Yahya Orhan mezarı başında anıldı Archived 2013-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ Human Rights Association (Turkey) (1998), Human Rights Report 1998, p47-8
  8. ↑ "HUDOC - European Court of Human Rights". hudoc.echr.coe.int. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
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