Aydınlık
Sign in to saveAydınlık ("Clarify" or "Enlightenment" in Turkish) is the newspaper of the Patriotic Party (Vatan Partisi). Originally launched as a weekly newspaper in 1921, it has been repeatedly closed and relaunched, most recently in 2011.
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- Headquarters
- Istanbul
- Official website
- www.aydinlikgazete.com
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- Aydınlık (newspaper)
- inception
- 1921-00-00
- title
- Aydınlık
- language of work or name
- Turkish
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Aydınlık ("Clarify" or "Enlightenment" in Turkish) is the newspaper of the Patriotic Party (Vatan Partisi). Originally launched as a weekly newspaper in 1921, it has been repeatedly closed and relaunched, most recently in 2011.
==History== ===Early history=== thumb|right|Aydınlık, 1 June 1921 Aydınlık was launched in 1921 as the Ottoman Empire's first socialist newspaper (a weekly); it was associated with the Communist Party of Turkey. It was closed down in 1925. In the interim it published authors such as Nâzım Hikmet, Şevket Süreyya Aydemir, Hasan Âli and Kerim Sadi.
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