Türkiye Gazetesi has held a strong position in the media industry since April 22, 1970, thanks to its experienced management, stable publishing policy, strong brand, and solid readership.

Established on April 22, 1970, Türkiye Gazetesi is the only press organization that still has the same owner and publishing policy. It has built on its past experiences to progress into the future, taking a steady and disciplined approach to doing so. Adhering to fundamental rights and freedoms in line with the principles of ethical journalism, the newspaper always strives to innovate and keep the interest of its readers alive.

Türkiye Gazetesi is a pioneering publication in Türkiye. It was the first to adopt doorstep delivery and still distributes newspapers directly to homes and businesses, in addition to dealer sales. The organization maintains its position through impartiality and, most importantly, through its principle of transparency. One of the most significant of İhlas Journalism’s commercial activities, Türkiye Gazetesi has held a strong position in the media industry since April 22, 1970, thanks to its experienced management, stable publishing policy, strong brand, and solid readership. As the only national newspaper whose ownership and publishing policy have remained unchanged since its inception, Türkiye Gazetesi also boasts a robust technical and distribution infrastructure. İhlas Journalism, which established its offset printing facilities in 1981, operates six printing facilities in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Adana, Trabzon, and Antalya. With its rich content and strong technical and distribution infrastructure, İhlas Journalism continues to maintain its leading position in the industry. Türkiye Gazetesi’s extensive distribution and sales network, which operates in all 81 Turkish provinces, plays an effective role in İhlas Holding’s marketing activities. It also enables the newspaper’s doorstep delivery.

Maintaining its strong position in the industry in 2023, İhlas Journalism stands out due to its publishing approach. The company adheres to universal and contemporary values, employs expert staff, and demonstrates consistent sustainability principles. İhlas Journalism owns 6.92 percent of İhlas Holding and 30.91 percent of İhlas Media Holding.

İhlas Journalism’s Steady Success in 2023
Global fluctuations are rapidly reflected in local markets. For this reason, leading press organizations in Türkiye, including İhlas Journalism, have adopted strategies that support sustainable success and activity. Since 2012, İhlas Journalism has implemented effective resource management tools, such as the SAP enterprise resource system, to better coordinate its business processes. İhlas Journalism’s digital presence, Türkiye Gazetesi online platform (turkiyegazetesi.com.tr), has played a pioneering role in the company’s digital publishing since day one. The online platform provides up-to-the-minute news on developments in Türkiye and worldwide; and in 2023, it continued its efforts to boost the number of visitors to the site. Türkiye Gazetesi active presence on social media platforms such as Facebook, X, and Instagram allowed it to boast high follower counts by the end of 2023. The newspaper’s accounts on these platforms deliver articles, photos, daily content, and breaking news to its followers.

The Only Newspaper That Has Had the Same Owner Since Day One
Since its establishment, Türkiye Gazetesi has strictly adhered to ethical journalistic principles, always prioritizing respect for fundamental rights and freedoms. Constantly renewing and developing itself, Türkiye Gazetesi has managed to keep its readership alive through its efforts over recent years. At the beginning of 2013, the newspaper made significant changes to its content and columnist staff, downsized and renewed its layout, and embraced a simpler look in line with its understanding of “new journalism.” Türkiye Gazetesi, which has delivered news all across Türkiye since its establishment, continues steadily on its path by constantly renewing itself while maintaining the principles of quality, stability, and continuity.

Initially launched as the digital version of the newspaper, Türkiye Gazetesi platform, turkiyegazetesi. com.tr, reports current developments to visitors from Türkiye and worldwide. The website has thus become an up-to-date and reliable source of information. In 2022, Türkiye Gazetesi completely revamped the platform, providing a more user-friendly interface and launching a digital subscription system that offered subscriber-only benefits.

“2023: The Successful Journey and Sustainability of İhlas Journalism”
Global fluctuations are rapidly reflected in local markets. For this reason, leading press organizations in Türkiye, including İhlas Journalism, have adopted a strategy that supports sustainable success and activity. Since 2012, İhlas Journalism has implemented effective resource management tools, such as the SAP enterprise resource system, to better coordinate its business processes. İhlas Journalism’s digital presence, Türkiye Gazetesi website (turkiyegazetesi. com.tr), continues to play a pioneering role in digital publishing. The online platform provides up-to-the-minute updates on current developments in Türkiye and worldwide. It continues its efforts to increase daily visitor numbers. Türkiye Gazetesi active presence on social media platforms such as Facebook, X, and Instagram boasts high follower counts. The newspaper’s accounts on these platforms deliver articles, photos, daily content, and breaking news to its followers.

Türkiye Gazetesi follower count climbed to 1.2 million on Facebook, 340,000 on X, and 230,000 on Instagram by the end of 2023. Growing rapidly in repute across social networks, Türkiye Gazetesi reaches its followers with news articles, columnists and photos as well as breaking news and daily coverage. The newspaper aims to reach two million Facebook users, 500,000 X followers, and 500,000 Instagram followers as soon as possible. On its YouTube channel in 2023, it offered 870 million videos to more than 780,000 subscribers, totaling 163 million views. Having developed its iOS and Android apps in 2023, Türkiye Gazetesi continues to grow rapidly in the mobile app market.

Strong Shareholding Structure
İhlas Journalism shares have been traded on BIST with the ticker IHGZT since June 14, 2010. As of the end of 2023, İhlas Media Holding owns 30.91 percent and İhlas Holding owns 6.92 percent of shares in İhlas Journalism. Meanwhile, İhlas Journalism holds 16.4 percent of shares in İHA – İhlas Haber Ajansı A.Ş..

Unwavering Value and a Refreshed Perspective: The Steady Path of Türkiye Gazetesi
Since its first publication on April 22, 1970, Türkiye Gazetesi has been a symbol of unwavering stability in the press industry. During its unchanged ownership and publishing policy, it has adhered strictly to ethical journalistic principles, always prioritizing respect for fundamental rights and freedoms. Constantly renewing and developing itself, Türkiye Gazetesi has a thriving readership.

At the beginning of 2013, Türkiye Gazetesi made significant changes to its content and columnist staff, downsized and renewed its layout, and embraced a simpler look in line with its understanding of “new journalism.” Türkiye Gazetesi, delivering news all across Türkiye, continues steadily on its path by constantly renewing itself while maintaining the principles of quality, stability, and continuity.

First Newspaper to Offer Doorstep Delivery in Türkiye
Türkiye Gazetesi maintains its principles of achieving sustainable success by delivering 90 percent of its daily newspaper sales in Türkiye directly to subscribers through its doorstep delivery model. Widely popular around the world, and particularly in the US and Japan, the doorstep delivery model allows the company to have a direct, warm, and lasting interaction with its readers. This model also contributes to the stability of the newspaper’s sales and its long-term success. Türkiye Gazetesi has successfully preserved its position in the industry by providing reliable and uninterrupted newspaper service to its readers through its doorstep delivery model.

At a time when live news channels are flourishing and internet news sites are threatening traditional newspaper circulation, Türkiye Gazetesi continues to make significant headlines with its exclusive news service. While strictly adhering to press ethics, the newspaper constantly renews itself to keep its thriving readership.

At the beginning of 2013, Türkiye Gazetesi made significant changes to its content and columnist staff, downsized and renewed its layout, and embraced a simpler look in line with its understanding of “new journalism.”

The staff of Türkiye Gazetesi includes well-known, recognized columnists. İsmail Kapan, Yücel Koç, Rahim Er, Cem Küçük, Prof. Emre Alkin, PhD, Ömer Ekinci, Fatih Selek (politics), Ahmet Şimşirgil, Ekrem Buğra Ekinci (history), Çağrı Erhan, Meryem Aybike Sinan, Halime Gürbüz, Feridun Ağabey, Salih Uyan (society and education), İsa Karakaş, Necmettin Batırel (economics), Öcal Uluç, Kemal Belgin, Sadık Söztutan, Ercan Yıldız, Hasan Sarıçiçek, Ömer Faruk Ünal (sports) meet the readers of Türkiye Gazetesi in their respective columns.

Special news reporters such as İrfan Özfatura and Osman Sağırlı continue to set the agenda through their work. Offering its readers automobile content under the management of Ali Çelik, Türkiye Gazetesi also features weekly TV-Magazine, women, family and shopping sections. Additionally, Medya Market, which features columns by technology and media critics, and the real estate pages are among the most highly valued sections of the newspaper. The newspaper also includes puzzle booklets in its weekend papers.

The special news coverage provided by İHA, one of the world’s leading agencies, also distinguishes the newspaper. Türkiye Gazetesi, in a period of live broadcasts by news channels every minute, and internet journalism threatening newspaper circulation, has established a special news service that sets the agenda. The reporters and columnists of the newspaper, which continues its activities with a strong staff, were deemed worthy of various awards by professional organizations and sector representatives in 2023. Türkiye Gazetesi has consistently published Türkiye Kids Magazine since 1981. It has contributed to the upbringing of Türkiye’s most important statespeople, politicians, artists and athletes, and continues to provide it for free to its readers every month. The reporters and columnists of the newspaper, whose activities are supported by its expert staff, have been deemed worthy of various awards by professional organizations and sector representatives. Since its inception, İhlas Journalism, with its honest and prudent approach to publishing, has been a source of trust and morale in Türkiye, even in difficult times.

Sustainability in Numbers
Online Advertising and Promotions Lead to Steady Rise in Number of Readers — With a consistent advertising revenue stream, Türkiye Gazetesi has collaborated with Digital Assets, a subsidiary of İhlas Media Holding, to further increase its online advertising revenue . Various systematic efforts to attract new subscribers have been carried out; their success is reflected in the newspaper’s increased circulation. İhlas Journalism, one of the two most widespread printing networks in Türkiye and one of the few media organizations in the country with its own printing infrastructure, has the capacity to print 55,000 newspapers per hour through its Istanbul facility alone. Thanks to its printing facilities in Ankara, Izmir, Adana, Trabzon and Antalya, İhlas Journalism contains both local news and news specific to each region. With over 500 employees, the company’s success is reflected in its corporate figures. İhlas Journalism has become one of Türkiye’s most important print centers, providing press services to İhlas Holding and other organizations. It currently prints a number of national and local newspapers. Since 1981, at its vast printing facilities in Istanbul, İhlas Journalism has been offering pre-press, press, and post-press services for newspapers, magazines, promotional materials, books, and many other products. On top of its operations in Türkiye, İhlas Journalism serves many international markets. For this reason, it is one of the two largest printing networks in Türkiye.

Fast Printing and 24-Hour Sheet-Fed Offset Printing
The printing facilities at İhlas Journalism, which contain the largest collection of web offset printing machinery in Türkiye, make the company a leader in the sheet-fed offset printing industry. The facilities carry out all types of high-quality single- and multi-color printing tasks. The sheet-fed offset printing machines, which are compatible with digital ink control and international color management systems, also offer lamination options. The machines use color control and monitoring systems to achieve maximum color quality. The facilities also offer unusual options such as scented pages, special colors, and silicone applications.

Digital Printing
For urgent and smaller jobs, digital printers provide economic and high-quality results in the shortest possible time. These machines can swiftly print any document required quickly, such as catalogs, brochures, promotional kits, magazines, books, and invitations.

Heatset Print
In heatset printing, super-calendered (SC), lightweight-coated, and medium weight–coated papers are used to print using web offset technology. Printing on SC paper produces bright colors suitable for use in newspapers. The company has invested significantly in the technology to make this possible. This method ensures that high-quality and low-cost prints on low-grammage papers can be produced at high speed, thereby aiding cost and time management.

Post-Press Services
The company’s post-press services include perfect binding, thread-sewn binding on a cardboard cover, thread-sewn binding on flexicover, staple binding, and spiral binding. Products eligible for these services can be printed in different shapes and sizes. The packaging department offers a wide range of packaging solutions, including insert box lines, bagging machines, functional banding machines, shrink wrap machines, pallet wrapping machines, and various boxing options. The cutting-edge KBA-Metronic jet printer can print barcodes, logos, and matrix codes. It works on a number of different surfaces.

Fast, Meticulous, and Quality Service: Sustainability
İhlas Journalism takes all necessary precautions to protect its employees’ health and safety within the scope of the OHSAS 18001 standard. The company has documented the quality of its production in line with the ISO 9001-2008 Total Quality Management (TQM) System Certificate. It conducts audits at every step of production and applies TQM requirements without compromise. It also ensures that the final services offered to consumers always meet the same standards by abiding by the TSE-HYB Service Competence Certificate.

İhlas Journalism also tracks the outcome of its work and has established an environmental management system within the scope of the ISO 14001 Environmental Management Standard to monitor the environmental impacts of its printing processes.

The company also holds the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certificate and Chain of Custody (CoC) Certification. The FSC-CoC certificate indicates that the product is sourced from well-managed forests and controlled sources. The FSC logo on the product confirms that the forest from which the product was sourced is managed sustainably and that this status has been approved by an independent body.
Türkiye Gazetesi has consistently published “Türkiye Kids” (Türkiye Çocuk) magazine since 1981 and continues to provide it as part of its subscription offering every month.

Sustainable Digital Transformation in the Press Industry
Türkiye recently experienced a challenging period due to wars and terrorist attacks happening in countries on its southeastern border. As the value of the US dollar soared due to global economic fluctuations,
it increased the costs of the imported products (particularly paper) required by the press industry. Additionally, digital transformation has continued to accelerate steadily. The cyber world, which enables communication between billions of users worldwide, removing the limitations of time and space, has turned into a new media whereby every agenda, from the most personal to the most global, is in plain sight. In an era where traditional media is rapidly shifting to new media, İhlas Journalism has taken significant strides to embrace the changes in this field.

İhlas Journalism in the Turkish Press
In the light of all these conclusions regarding printed, visual, and digital media in Türkiye, İhlas Journalism has closely follows developments in the newspaper industry and has made substantial technological investments to keep up to date. It has significantly improved its printing technologies and collaborated with Digital Assets to update the Türkiye Gazetesi online platform.

İhlas Journalism Publishing Principles
İhlas Journalism adopts an objective journalistic approach, adhering not only to press ethics and principles but also to universal and contemporary values.

• Türkiye Gazetesi, which is proud to carry the name of its country, consciously chose April 22 as its establishment date, underlining its commitment to safeguarding democracy by synchronizing its start with the day before the national public holiday.
• The newspaper’s journalism defends the independence and the indivisible unity of the Republic of Türkiye and the interests of the nation.
• The paper highly values the trust of its readers. It strives to be worthy of the widespread opinion that something “is true if Türkiye Gazetesi says so.”
• Türkiye Gazetesi publishing policy and content are suitable for a family readership.
• It nurtures the tolerance of different opinions.
• The paper adopts an objective approach to journalism; it adheres to press ethics and principles and universal and contemporary values.
• Türkiye Gazetesi operates on the belief that good news is still news, and it always publishes content on economic stability using a “glass half full” perspective.
• The paper uses reassuring, clear language that appeals to various social groups and age ranges.
• It separates its journalism from all kinds of vested interests.
• Türkiye Gazetesi does not discriminate, in any of
its publications, against any race, gender, religious beliefs, language, social status, or physical ability.
• The paper does not declare anyone guilty unless their guilt has been proven by a court decision. It avoids the use of derogatory or humiliating nicknames and expressions.
• It does not interfere with individuals’ private lives, nor does it publish confidentially shared information.
• The paper respects the right of reply of individuals and organizations.

It highly values the trust of its readership. İhlas Journalism strives to be worthy of the widespread judgment that something “is true if Türkiye Gazetesi says so.”