Zaman (newspaper)
Typical Zaman front page
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Berliner |
| Owner(s) | Feza Publications |
| Editor-in-chief | Abdülhamit Bilici (October 2015 – March 5, 2016) |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Political alignment | Before seizure: Gülen movement; After seizure: pro-government |
| Language | Turkish |
| Headquarters | Fevzi Çakmak Mah. A. Taner Kışlalı Cad. No:6 34194 Bahçelievler |
| City | İstanbul |
| Country | Turkey |
| Circulation |
 2,424 (as of 4 April 2016) |
| Website | www |
Zaman (Turkish: [zɑˈmɑn], literally "time" or "era"), sometimes stylized as ZAMAN, is a daily in Turkey. Zaman was a major, high-circulation daily before government seizure on 4th of March, 2016 (the circulation was around 650,000 as of February 2016) It was founded in 1986 and was the first Turkish daily to go online in 1995. It contains national (Turkish), international, business, and other news. It also has many regular columnists who cover current affairs, interviews, and a culture section.
The newspaper originally supported the Justice and Development Party (AKP), but became increasingly critical of that party and its leader, Turkish president and former prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, particularly after the AKP closed the 2013 December investigation into corruption. On 4 March 2016, in what activists and international media groups criticized as another blow to press freedom in Turkey, control of the newspaper was seized by the government. The takeover was motivated by the newspaper's ties to the Hizmet movement of Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, which the government accuses of attempting to establish a parallel state in Turkey.
The newspaper was closed by the decree No. 668 which was published in the Official Gazette on July 27, 2016.
Zaman is an Istanbul-based daily paper that also prints special international editions for some other countries. It is printed in 11 countries and distributed in 35 countries.
In addition to four locations in Turkey, regional editions are printed and distributed in Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Germany, Romania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Turkmenistan, and the US. Zaman bureaus and correspondents are located in major world capitals and cities like Washington DC, New York City, Brussels, Moscow, Cairo, Baku, Frankfurt, Ashgabat, Tashkent, and Bucharest.
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