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{{short description|Former newspaper in Turkey}}
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|type = Daily [[newspaper]]
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|foundation = 19 January 2009
| ceased publication   = 4 April 2011
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|language = [[Turkish language|Turkish]]
|headquarters =  [[Istanbul]], Turkey
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'''''Günlük''''' (''Daily'') was a Turkish newspaper known for its writing about Kurdish issues. It was published from 2009 to 2011.
It was closed for a period of two months in 2009 under court order because of material deemed "terrorist propaganda" under Turkey's Press Law.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Günlük Newspaper Receives 2-Month Publication Ban|url=http://bianet.org/english/minorities/115100-gunluk-newspaper-receives-2-month-publication-ban|last=|first=|date=|website=Bianet|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=17 May 2020}}</ref> One case related to an article by [[Amir Hassanpour]], "Linguistic Rights in the Linguistic Systems of the Developed World: State, Market and Communication Technologies", which included a passing mention of the PKK.<ref name="IFEX" /> The monthly periodical ''Vesta'' had published the same article in 2003 without sanction.<ref name=IFEX>[[International Freedom of Expression Exchange]], 28 August 2009, [http://www.ifex.org/turkey/2009/08/28/gunluk_banned/ "Günlük" newspaper banned over alleged "terrorist propaganda"]</ref> The newspaper and its journalists were often engaged in legal disputes with the Turkish authorities.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Taraf and Günlük Journalists Facing Jail|url=http://bianet.org/english/freedom-of-expression/122588-taraf-and-gunluk-journalists-facing-jail|last=Önderoğlu|first=Erol|date=|website=Bianet|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=17 May 2020}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Anti-Terror Law Thwarts Kurdish Initiative|url=http://bianet.org/english/minorities/117928-anti-terror-law-thwarts-kurdish-initiative|last=Önderoğlu|first=Erol|date=|website=Bianet|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=17 May 2020}}</ref> The journalists faced terror related charges for an interview with [[Murat Karayılan|Murat Karayilan]], at the time the chairman of the [[Kurdistan Communities Union|Kurdistan Union of Communities]] (KCK),<ref name=":0" /> but in November 2010 where found not quilty.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Acquittal of Journalists Durukan, Çakkalkurt, Koçali and Pekgöz|url=http://bianet.org/english/print/126201-acquittal-of-journalists-durukan-cakkalkurt-kocali-and-pekgoz|last=|first=|date=|website=Bianet|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=17 May 2020}}</ref> The paper's executive editors were [[Ayhan Bilgen]] and [[Filiz Koçali]] were both prosecuted; charges against the former were dropped, while the latter was acquitted. In 2013 the [[European Court of Human Rights|ECHR]] awarded damages for the suspensions, judging a violation of [[Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights]].<ref>[[European Court of Human Rights|ECHR]], 29/04/2013, [http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx?i=001-116134 Güdenoğlu and Others v. Turkey]</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
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