Milliyet

While many complain about Turkey's education system, governments and political parties are not held accountable for their education policies, according to a veteran journalist.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on June 10 visited the Demirören family to extend his condolences over the death of Erdoğan Demirören, the late chair of Demirören Holding, which owns the Demirören Media Group, including daily Hürriyet.

The Turkish business world is in mourning after the death of Erdoğan Demirören, the chair of the Demirören Group, on June 8.

The number of death penalties executed during the 64-year period from 1920 to 1984 was 712 until it was abolished, according to the report titled "Death Penalties since 1920," daily Milliyet reported on Aug. 6.

Corruption, social inequality, xenophobia and hatred of foreigners on the one hand and, on the other hand, pressure, rudeness and obstacles against Turks with dual citizenship who wanted to go to Bulgaria in order to vote there, wrote the online edition Haberler and added that there was tension, discontent and scandals due to the insufficient number of voting sections in Turkey.

The year was 1969; the incident I am going to tell happened that year during the beginning of an election campaign. Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Ali İhsan Göğüş paid a visit to party chair İsmet İnönü at his home and presented the candidate list to him that was to be handed over to the election council. Two journalists were accompanying him.

Veteran journalist Nail Güreli has died at the age of 84 on Oct. 26 in Istanbul, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

Turgay Olcayto, the head of the Turkish Journalists' Association, which Güreli headed between 1994 and 2001, issued a statement expressing his condolences. 

Turkey's transportation minister has weighed in on a debate which started slightly over a week ago, after Turkish daily Sözcü printed a photo of his son playing roulette at a Singapore casino, expressing his disbelief in the "innocence" of the story while stressing he lacked the evidence to accuse a particular individual. 

Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar and the daily's Ankara bureau chief, Erdem Gül, were released early on Feb. 26 following 92 days in prison on terrorism charges, hours after the country's top court's ruled their arrest had violated their rights. 

Many years ago, in early 1997, I was invited to the headquarters of Milliyet in Istanbul.