Milliyet

Demirören Media High School, a vocational school that will train young journalists who will be well-equipped with skills to work in the media sector, will start accepting its first students after the high school qualification exam on June 5.

Veteran Turkish journalist Tufan Türenç, who was called "the man who knows everything" by his colleagues in the daily Hürriyet, where he worked for over three decades, has died at the age of 77 in the capital Ankara on April 23.

He was being treated in a hospital for some time for a heart condition.

Photojournalists from Demirören Media have won 11 awards in the Press Photographs of the Year Event, one of the most well-established photography organizations held by Turkey's Photojournalists Association (TFMD).

Prominent Turkish journalist Sami Kohen, who is known as the man "who introduced the foreign news editing to Turkish media," has died at the age of 93 in Istanbul.

Artistic gymnast İbrahim Çolak was chosen as the 2021 Athlete of the Year at the 67th Gillette Milliyet Athlete of the Year awards on Sept. 29.

Mehmet Baykan, general manager of Sports Services, presented the award in a ceremony at Istanbul's Volkswagen Arena organized by the Turkish Milliyet daily newspaper and shaving products company Gillette.

Daily Milliyet has become the only media organization that has taken part in an equality forum that guides U.N. Women's gender equality efforts, vowing to work towards the issue in the next five years.

Elif Karacaoğlu, the chief human resources officer (CHRO) of Demirören Media Group, has been added to the list of the country's most influential 50 human resource officers.

The construction of the new Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM), a prominent symbol of Istanbul, is in its last phase as the first acoustic testing of the center's main stage has been successfully carried out, according to daily Hürriyet.

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.

As the recent economic hardships have started taking their toll on culture and the art world, the sector tries to steer away from pessimism according to an observer. "They were initially demoralized, but the current reflex is to resist difficulties," said Filiz Aygündüz, the editor-in-chief of Milliyet Art magazine, which is one of Turkey's longest-running art magazines.