Cumhuriyet

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Cumhuriyet
TypeUp-market daily
FormatBerliner
Owner(s)Cumhuriyet Foundation
Founder(s)Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu
Editor-in-chiefAykut Karakaya
Founded7 May 1924; 99 years ago (1924-05-07)
Political alignmentCentre-left
Left-wing politics
Secularism/Laïcité
Social democracy
LanguageTurkish
HeadquartersŞişli, Istanbul, Turkey
Circulation43,791 (as of May 2018)
Websitewww.cumhuriyet.com

Cumhuriyet (English: The Republic) is a Turkish nationwide daily newspaper based in Istanbul. It was founded on May 7, 1924 by Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu.

Cumhuriyet newspaper includes columnists that are generally considered to share social democratic, secularist and republican ideas with its readers. Cumhuriyet is sold about 60,000 everyday.

İlhan Selçuk, the editor of Cumhuriyet arrested by police after the conservative-Islamic government party AKP has wanted to closed.

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