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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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