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Journalist and columnist Vahap Munyar has been officially announced as the new editor-in-chief of the Hürriyet newspaper, while Demirören Media Group CEO Mehmet Soysal has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Hürriyet Gazetecilik.

The transition process of the Doğan Group's media assets, including the Hürriyet Daily News, to the Demirören Group has been completed.

An Istanbul court sentenced 15 of 10 former staffers of the shut-down daily Zaman to a range of jail terms on terror-linked charges on April 30. 

AGERPRES Director General Alexandru Giboi talked Thursday, during the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) conference, about the goals of the institution he runs, mentioning that amongst them is promoting the evolution of media and supporting national media.

Belgrade Appeals Court on Friday confirmed that Informer published false information and damaged the reputation of BIRN Serbia editor Slobodan Georgiev in an article published by the tabloid entitled "They Wanted to Snatch 23.2 Million Euros".

President Aleksandar Vucic said this in an interview for Rossiya-24 broadcaster, Sputnik is reporting on Friday.

An Istanbul court on April 5 announced the indictments for former journalists of daily Zaman, which was closed because of its links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organisation (FETÖ).

The Guardian newspaper has canceled an "educational and informative tour of modern Greece" which had sought to offer tours to tourists wanting to learn more about the impact of the financial crisis following an outcry by critics who described the venture as "poverty tourism."

At least 13 were killed and 20 injured in the central Anatolian province of Çorum when a bus slammed into a truck and burst into flames in the early hours of March 13, CNN Türk has reported.

Twenty years ago I was summoned to the office of Kathimerini's owner Aristides Alafouzos. In his usual decisive and succinct manner he gave board member Martha Dertili and myself a very clear mandate: "I want Kathimerini to be a truly international newspaper, we are citizens of the world and you should never forget that.