Cumhuriyet

Cumhuriyet is one of Turkey's oldest daily newspapers, published in Turkish from Istanbul. It covers national and international news, politics, and culture and is known for a secularist, Kemalist editorial tradition that is often critical of the government. It maintains print and digital editions and is regarded as a prominent independent press title.

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Cumhuriyet at a glance

Country: Türkiye
Region: Türkiye, Iran and Iraq · Middle East and North Africa
Kind of outlet: Daily newspaper
Editorial leaning: Left-leaning
Founded: 1924
Published from: Istanbul
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How Crosswire groups Cumhuriyet

Crosswire groups Cumhuriyet as Left-leaning for comparisons within Türkiye's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In Türkiye, Hürriyet and Hürriyet Daily News are listed as Centrist, while Daily Sabah and Yeni Şafak are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Cumhuriyet beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where Cumhuriyet sits in Türkiye's press

Cumhuriyet was founded in 1924 and is published from Istanbul. It is one of 6 outlets tracked in Türkiye, and one of 6 daily newspapers among them — the others being Hürriyet, Daily Sabah, Hürriyet Daily News, Sözcü and Yeni Şafak. By outlets tracked, Türkiye ranks fourth of the 20 countries on Crosswire's Middle East and North Africa hub, which lists 99 outlets in all.

Across the Middle East and North Africa, Crosswire tracks 49 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Cumhuriyet outside Türkiye, starting with Türkiye, Iran and Iraq, are Le Matin (Morocco), El Watan (Algeria), La Presse de Tunisie (Tunisia) and Al-Ahram (Egypt). Opening one of them beside Cumhuriyet is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.