NEWSPAPER YENI ISTANBUL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R004400020003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 28, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 21, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLWCNCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFOR AT0f 1 REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Turkey
SUBJECT Ilenspaper Yeni Istanbul
PLACE
ACQUIRED
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DATE OF
INFO.
ILLEGI8
DATE DISTR.. 21 Feb a 115Ci
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to The daily newspaper Yeni Istanbul eras founded- by Habib Edip Torehano A lthot
it professes to be non~ p , ; i,; ha paper is,, - accor ing to of ant,
actually very partisaxa, with stx g pro-Gar art,, pro-Arabs and anti :r ,rte
lc ain;s and is Intended to prom tie aror g influential Turks a pre-GexLAa=
econo is and political policy, as o].i as to enhance Tor ehana as prestl ,e in
Turkey,
oration
2m Torchan has formed a publishing a?d advorbisina fir= called Istanbul
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uppaxter of C~mhuri t, Vataan, at id boycotts Yeni Istanbul,.
Torehanj who abaaopened bran ofi s I Paris, Bonn, ., n za aar~d, aid
Austria, states that Yczni Istanbu:, strives to imitate the London Timbs
and Lende of Paris? ----
14e4r-.yati ..:uteal 4zrketi for the . zi.Alrtian of his nerrapaper and the
promotion of lesser enterprises co.s' which he is the major financial
backer. He has initially invaste:. one ilhion Turkish lira for this
venture and is giving the necisnan r a trial period of three to four
years, during which titre he is p3"1 pcre to operate at a financial loss.
This operating company as estthl:?..;3hed in opposition to the advertiaix g
eonpany ]lmet ~irketi.. which I,- .ont fled by Kemal (fhu),* Smcanon (.f"v u),*
Iloffar (ftnu j,* and Hoiii (f-)*-* `'hi.s latter firm rro-Israeli
and na
The Owner
Habib ;dip Torehan, the owner of = n.i Lstanbul, massed a fortune of forty
to fifty million Turkish- lira dorm=_"` 1 r ar II, assisted by his
enterprising German wife,, by ~cpo :in1r cotton and tobacco to Gorrm y
Staff
4. Farulc Sunter is the Administrative Dlroctor and a close friend of Tore ran.
He has been entrusted with the ent .m--) c"ruction of the paper by Torah n
while the latter lives in Switzer-] lnd Gunter has no experience as a
publicist or a journalist and is by inforhant as very pro-er . , a,
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 urban Gc ;&' is the i for in = c.h k. ? and is a reU--Jmowm jo u st
and professional pablIcist0 fl :s so1air is TL 1500 per ncmtTa; and,,
ao cordin to source, his sympa thi o are 1.7i th the HAM Paxby
recently he started a special. , iodical of his 6i=.. called Lattras
Poli:ti. M to which he does n t attach his nom,,,
6e Robert resn is one of the pri, c:Lpal, writers on the editorial staffp
for t hich he receives a" sal.ar; off' TL 50O per month. He -writes under
the name of Selim. Sabitn
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Aural. Decci., forsaer furaanian P4 ces .1, stacha and professor of OriC- ita1
Langua'es at the Un:tvo-rsity of 3tucherest, is the head arch.-lvitt,
writors and translator*
So The majority of the aariters for the newspaper are professors at
Turkmen
Co :tent. Accord" to the Iatebul telephone directorys
3 . 1 1 - 1 9 15 Samson, &-nest Iioffarg and Jalc Loth are
Istanbul University and the to hrsical schools of Istanau 0 The staff
of Ycni. I3tanbnl Is the hi ios'= paid of any jou.xnaliatic staff in
associated with Ilancilik If -Xlekt: f (advertising assoolzbos) of
Istanbul?
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