Doğan Media Group

Two former soldiers who had conducted a raid on the Doğan Media Center in the Bağcılar district of Istanbul on the night of last year's failed coup attempt have claimed that they had surrounded the building after having been given an order of a potential "terror attack" targeting the complex.

The second hearing of the case into the raid on Hürriyet, the Hürriyet Daily News, CNN Türk and Kanal D at the Doğan Media Center during last year's failed coup was postponed to early August by an Istanbul court on July 18 after the suspects demanded extra time for their pleas.

It was the second time in my life I saw his face. The first time was one year and one day ago, on the night of the July 15, 2016, coup attempt, when he was heading a military team that raided the headquarters of Hürriyet and CNN Türk, as part of a raid on Doğan Media Center, in Istanbul at about 03:00 a.m. on July 16.

The suspects in the case of the raid on daily Hürriyet, the Hürriyet Daily News, CNN Türk and Kanal D at the Doğan Media Center in the Bağcılar district of Istanbul on the night of last year's coup attempt refused to testify in the first hearing on July 17, claiming they had not received the indictment.

The hearing of a total of 19 soldiers who raided daily Hürriyet, the Hürriyet Daily News, CNN Türk and Kanal D at the Doğan Media Center in the Bağcılar district of Istanbul on the night of last year's failed coup attempt will begin on July 17, one year after the attempted takeover.

Turkey came back from the brink of a huge disaster on July 15, 2016, the day of the failed coup attempt, Doğan Group Honorary Chairman Aydın Doğan said on July 7.

Turkey faces increasingly difficult times, and matters are set to get worse before they get better. This is not scaremongering but an assessment based on objective events - based on what is taking place in this deeply and dangerously divided country. 

Police officers in the case into an attack on daily Hürriyet and Hürriyet Daily News' building in Istanbul's Bağcılar in 2015 testified as witnesses in court on May 25, noting that the small size of the force was unable to stop the approximately 200 assailants who raided the building.

A court in the southern province of Adana yesterday gave a local journalist a punitive fine and ruled for him to pay compensation to Aydın Doğan, the honorary chairman of Doğan Holding, on insult charges.

The founder of Turkey's leading internet company Doğan Online, Hanzade Doğan Boyner, spoke on May 20 about the importance of education at a gathering with some 36 of the most successful female students of the Aydın Doğan Foundation (ADV), telling the students to pursue their dreams by going to university and completing their degrees.