Yeni Şafak

Yeni Şafak is an Istanbul daily founded in 1994 and owned by Albayrak Media, part of a conglomerate with close ties to the governing AK Party. It is consistently characterized as conservative and Islamist, strongly supportive of President Erdoğan, and stands among the most widely read pro-government newspapers in Türkiye.

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Yeni Şafak at a glance

Country: Türkiye
Region: Türkiye, Iran and Iraq · Middle East and North Africa
Kind of outlet: Daily newspaper
Editorial leaning: Right-leaning
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How Crosswire groups Yeni Şafak

Crosswire groups Yeni Şafak as Right-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, Cumhuriyet and Sözcü are listed as Left-leaning, while Hürriyet and Hürriyet Daily News are listed as Centrist — so you can open Yeni Şafak beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where Yeni Şafak sits in Türkiye's press

Yeni Şafak is one of 6 outlets tracked in Türkiye, and one of 6 daily newspapers among them — the others being Hürriyet, Cumhuriyet, Daily Sabah, Hürriyet Daily News and Sözcü. 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 Yeni Şafak outside Türkiye, starting with Türkiye, Iran and Iraq, are The Daily Star Lebanon (Lebanon), Al Rai (Jordan), Haaretz (Israel) and Al-Quds (Palestine). Opening one of them beside Yeni Şafak is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.