Nokta
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| Frequency | weekly |
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| First issue | 1 March 1982 |
| Final issue | 2016 |
| Country | Turkey |
| Language | Turkish |
| ISSN | 1301-613X |
| OCLC number | 10805922 |
Nokta ("Point" in Turkish) was a leading Turkish weekly political news magazine. Founded in 1983, it was closed down by its owner in 2007 under military pressure after revealing several coup plots. Revived in 2015, it was closed again in the course of the 2016–17 Turkish purges.
Contributors to Nokta included Ayşe Arman, Can Dündar and Ahmet Şık.
The magazine was launched by Ercan Arıklı on 1 March 1982 as Nokta ve İnsanlar. It became Nokta in 1983. The magazine had a liberal and progressive stance during the Ercan Arıklı period and In 1989 it was the highest-circulation news weekly in Turkey, ahead of 2000'e Doğru.
In March 2007, Nokta ran a story, written by its Editor in Chief, Ahmet Alper Görmüş, revealing a confidential campaign of the military blacklisting some journalists and press organs, based on a leaked report prepared by the Office of the Chief of General Staff categorizing journalists as "trustworthy" (pro military) and "untrustworthy" (anti military). While the military acknowledged the existence of such a list, they declared that the version published by Nokta was "only a draft". The newspaper Sabah said that Nokta's report does not conform to the format used by the military.
Later that month, Nokta published excerpts of a diary, allegedly written by admiral Özden Örnek, a former navy commander. Following the publication, the magazines offices were raided by the police in a three-day operation. The diary detailed two plans for a military coup, both by the commanders of the army (Aytaç Yalman), navy (Özden Örnek) and the air force (İbrahim Fırtına), together with the gendarmerie chief (Şener Eruygur), and aiming to overthrow the AK Party government in 2004.
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