Demirören News Agency Explained

Demirören News Agency
Foundation:	1999
Location:	Istanbul, Turkey
Industry:	News agency
Parent:	Demirören Group^[1]

Demirören News Agency (DHA; Turkish: Demirören Haber Ajansı) is a Turkish news agency which was founded in 1999. It is owned by the Demirören Group. It provides news in English, German and Chinese as well as Turkish.^[1] In 2011 it had 41 offices in Turkey and 26 abroad.^[2]

Formerly owned by the Doğan Media Group and called Doğan Haber Ajansı, DHA was known for its critical coverage of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.^[3] In March 2018, the parent company was sold to Demirören Group whose owner, Erdogan Demirören, is close to the Erdoğan government.^[4]

See also

• Death of Alan Kurdi

Notes and References

1. DHA, Künye
2. Esra Elmas, Dilek Kurban (2011), "Communicating Democracy -Democratizing Communication - Media in Turkey: Legislation, Policies, Actors", Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, p32
3. Web site: Türkei: Erdogan bestätigt Echtheit von Telefonmitschnitten . Hasnain . Kazim . 2014 . DER SPIEGEL . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230321185655/https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/tuerkei-erdogan-bestaetigt-echtheit-von-telefonmitschnitten-a-957072.html . Mar 21, 2023 .
4. https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21739615-dogan-group-gets-offer-it-cant-refuse-turkeys-last-big-independent-media-firm-snapped-up "Turkey’s last big independent media firm is snapped up by a regime ally"