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"It is obvious that there is a need to regulate media organisations which operate with funds from foreign state and institutions," Altun told Turkey's state-owned Anadolu Agency on Wednesday.

He added that the government will not allow any fifth-column activity under new guises.

Journalism never gets old. Even so, the 60th year is a great milestone on a long journey, and today, the Hürriyet Daily News has reached it.

The Daily News, founded in 1961, is currently the oldest English-language daily in Turkey.

Turkey and the world have changed enormously in the last 60 years, spanning the era between the Cold War and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pavel Stanchev is appointed CEO of Hungary's most watched television channel - TV2, Hungarian media reported. The Bulgarian was presented to the team in the middle of last week and will take up the post on May 15 this year.

The Hollywood Turkish Film Festival will be held on Sept. 20, 21 and 22 at the world famous Paramount Studios for the first time in Turkish cinema history. The event is supported by the Ministry of Culture and the Tourism General Directorate of Cinema in a bid to reunite Turkish cinema with the global market.

A couple of hours after main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu entered the provincial borders of Istanbul on July 7, with 40 kilometers left to go to reach his target, I was having lunch with a diverse group of people.

For seven years, he was part of the morning routine in homes across Turkey. But last month, breakfast TV presenter Irfan Degirmenci told his 1.6m Twitter followers he would vote No in next month’s referendum on constitutional reform. Little more than 24 hours later, he was sacked.

The Doğan Media Group will "maintain its impartiality" ahead of the upcoming referendum on shifting Turkey to an executive presidential system, Doğan Group Honorary Chairman Aydın Doğan said during a regular meeting of the group's Editorial Policy Committee on March 23. 

A Turkish court has sentenced to life a colonel and a major because of their role in the coup attempt in July.

These are the first sentences in the biggest legal case in the history of the country. They were accused of violating the constitution.

A senior executive of the Doğan Group, the leading independent media group in Turkey, offered his resignation today amid allegations in social media that he repeatedly maintained correspondence with Berat Albayrak, the Minister of Energy and the son-in-law of President Tayyip Erdoğan, and the CEO of the rival Sabah newspaper, Serhat Albayrak, who is also the brother of the Energy Minister.

Doğan Media Group coordinator Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ announced his resignation from the post with a written statement issued on Sept. 30.
Here is Yalçındağ's statement:

"I have held different posts in institutions that are part of the Doğan Group since 1989, assuming high-level responsibility. I have been in charge of the coordination of Doğan media institutions since 2016.