The economy politics stracture of Ciner Group

The journalism in Turkey began lately as compared to Europe, however, Turkey kept up with all the changes which occured in all over the world in the 20th century. Those changes are mostly important in terms of economic and political possession of press. The January Economic Stability Programme which published in 1980, has been the starting point of the changes that Turkish press lived. Especially, in 1980s with the movement of economic liberalization the capital which is not related to press took place in the field. With the beginning of commercial channels to broadcasting life, Turkish Press which turned into Media attracted big companies. This study, which examines the economic politic structure of Turkish Press after 1980, took Ciner Group as sample. Ciner Publication Holding is one of the branch of industries within the Ciner Group. Actually, this study examined two different media group. This situation is because of the change of media organs of Ciner Group. Ciner Group started its media life with the purchase of Sabah Publication Incorporated Company (IC). The last chain of non-press related bosses, which started when Aydın Doğan purchased Milliyet, was Turgay Ciner. Sabah Group, which is one of the big media groups of Turkish Media, passed from journalism related boss to non-press related boss and the conglomerate of Turkish Media has been completed. After Dinç Bilgin, who is ex-owner of Sabah-Atv, presented documents which are proof of the partnership of Dinç Bilgin and Turgay Ciner to Saving Deposit Insurance Fund (SDIF) , SDIF confiscated to central media holding of Ciner Group. After that, with the agreement between Ciner Group and SDIF some media organs handed back to Ciner Group. Ciner Group, survived in media field by purchasing HaberTurk which is founded by journalist Ufuk Güldemir. This study examined Ciner Group by dividing it into two sub-groups which are Sabah-ATV and HaberTurk.