Hürriyet Daily News

Hürriyet Daily News is an English-language newspaper in Türkiye and one of the country's oldest English-language titles. It covers Turkish politics, economy, culture, and regional affairs for domestic and international readers. The paper is part of the Demirören Media Group and serves as a long-standing English-language source on Turkey.

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Hürriyet Daily News at a glance

Country: Türkiye
Region: Türkiye, Iran and Iraq · Middle East and North Africa
Kind of outlet: Daily newspaper
Editorial leaning: Centrist
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How Crosswire groups Hürriyet Daily News

Crosswire groups Hürriyet Daily News as Centrist for comparisons within Türkiye's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Türkiye, Cumhuriyet and Sözcü are listed as Left-leaning, while Daily Sabah and Yeni Şafak are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Hürriyet Daily News beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where Hürriyet Daily News sits in Türkiye's press

Hürriyet Daily News is one of 6 outlets tracked in Türkiye, and one of 6 daily newspapers among them — the others being Hürriyet, Cumhuriyet, Daily Sabah, 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 Hürriyet Daily News outside Türkiye, starting with Türkiye, Iran and Iraq, are La Presse de Tunisie (Tunisia), Al-Ahram (Egypt), The Daily Star Lebanon (Lebanon) and Al Rai (Jordan). Opening one of them beside Hürriyet Daily News is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.