Yeni Safak
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Berliner |
| Owner(s) | Albayrak Holding |
| Editor-in-chief | İbrahim Karagül |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Political alignment | Islamist, Conservative |
| Language | Turkish |
| Headquarters | Yeni Doğan Mah. Kızılay Sok. No: 39 Bayrampaşa |
| City | İstanbul |
| Country | Turkey |
| Circulation | 112.102 (November 2014) |
| Website | www |
Yeni Şafak ("New Dawn") is a conservative Turkish daily newspaper. The newspaper is known for its hardline support of president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AKP. It, together with other media organizations in Turkey, has been accused of using hate speech to target minorities and opposition groups.
Yeni Şafak made international headlines when it was discovered that the newspaper had fabricated an interview with Noam Chomsky.
Yeni Şafak's founding editor was Mehmet Ocaktan. In the beginning, Yeni Şafak was known for harboring both liberal and Islamist columnists. Yeni Şafak was acquired by Albayrak Holding in 1997, which had close ties with then mayor of Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. After İbrahim Karagül became the editor-in-chief of Yeni Şafak, the newspaper became a hardline supporter of then prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. More Islamist columnists were employed, while liberals like Kürşat Bumin were fired from the newspaper because of their critical views of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AKP.
On August 26, Noam Chomsky accused the pro-government Yeni Şafak newspaper of fabricating parts of an interview that was done with him via email, including inventing questions and answers and altering criticism of Erdoğan's approach to Egypt and Syria into an assertion that Turkey "stood with the oppressed people in Syria and Egypt". The administration of Yeni Şafak denied the accusation and promised to release the original English content of the emails. However, the released original was full of grammatical mistakes. Later it was found out that Yeni Şafak used Google Translate to translate fabricated Turkish content into English, and presented the translation as the original interview. After the grammatical errors, particularly "milk port", became a sensation on social media, Yeni Şafak finally admitted some parts were fabricated and removed the entire interview from its web site.
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