I know…
You are tired of directed, fabricated, and fake news…
There should be a journalistic approach that neither follows the government's lead nor covers up the opposition's mistakes…
It should convey only the truth, the truth as it is, to the public without bending or twisting it…
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12 Punto was established as an island of freedom for journalists and intellectuals who have each made universal journalistic principles their only guide in their professional lives and have paid the price for it…
It was planned as an independent, interactive communication channel that democratic societies need.
Young people who will embrace and reflect all the colors of life, just like our Republic, are working in the kitchen of 12 Punto…
We will stand out not only with current events and breaking news, but also with analyses that look behind the scenes of the news.
'What actually happened?' will be at the forefront of the questions we will persistently seek answers to…
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The government continues its systematic climate of pressure without pause to leave journalists unemployed and push them out of the profession.
As I was writing these lines, I was experiencing the joy of Merdan Yanardağ being released after 100 days of captivity.
Barış Pehlivan, on the other hand, is counting the days in prison!
Turkey is going through the most challenging and difficult days of its history… And maintaining the darkness depends on blacking out the media!
12 Punto will shed light on the darkness…
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While I was in the birth pains of a new generation of digital media and fully independent news publishing, I thought…
How many times have I made a 'fresh start'…
Kanaltürk, Kanal Biz, Artı Bir TV, Kanal Sokak, KRT, and others…
Islands of freedom that I organized and managed the establishment of…
Most recently, Cumhuriyet Newspaper… After the dispute we had with the management that trampled on journalistic ethics, I resigned along with my colleagues…
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Every island of freedom became a breath of air for society's right to receive news.
Some bosses entered the service of the government, some were afraid, some sold out…
They all disappeared, and only the true journalists remained…
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While the AKP was suffocating the media, it was clogging the society's channels of breathing.
The counter-revolution was possible only through the government's sustainable pressure, the collapse of independent media, and the silencing of honest journalists!
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There are over 10 million undocumented migrants all over the country…
For the first time in the country's history, the most basic right of citizenship, the need for shelter, cannot be met!
Religious sects have infiltrated the capillaries of the state.
Young people are hopeless, families are struggling to make a living… The AKP has made citizens suffering from poverty and hunger unable to question or think about how the country is being governed.
Millions have been paralyzed by unhappiness, grief, and anxiety about the future…
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Atatürk's revolutions, especially secularism, are being erased from the state's bureaucracy, education, and social life.
Reactionism and lumpenization are becoming widespread.
A country of people who are struggling with housing and livelihood, and who are rapidly losing their peace at home and on the street…
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But on the other hand…
There is also hope…
There is at least half of the country that resists the 20-year uninterrupted regime of pressure…
There are masses of citizens who will react to the regime of plunder when they wake up and lift their heads.
Who only need to see the truth…
12 Punto will shed light on the truth…
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12 Punto will be the defender of the struggle for enlightenment, contemporary and democratic values, and Atatürk's Turkey.
It will challenge the regime of corruption, the system of poverty, and the desperation into which the country is being dragged with its news, commentary, and analyses; it will show the way and produce solutions…
12 Punto will be the address of principled, impartial, free journalism, unquestionable trust, courage, and innovation.
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We know…
You are tired of directed, fabricated, and fake news…
You are longing for content as bright as the colors of life,
For impartial, free journalism,
For writers and journalists who appear as they are and are as they appear…
May its principle be universal journalism,
May what it writes be the truth,
May its line be Mustafa Kemal Atatürk…
Welcome to 12 Punto…
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