TROwnership & classification
Founded: 2014
Ownership
Daily Sabah, launched on 24 February 2014 as the English-language sister of the Turkish daily Sabah, is owned by Turkuvaz Media Group. Turkuvaz is controlled by the Kalyon Group, the construction conglomerate of the Kalyoncu family (vehicle Zirve/Kalyon Holding) that holds extensive Turkish state contracts; Sabah/ATV passed to this pro-government ownership after being seized from the Çukurova/Bilgin group and transferred in 2013, in a deal widely reported as orchestrated to bring the assets under Erdoğan-aligned control.
Funding
It is financed by advertising and circulation, but its parent Turkuvaz benefits heavily from public-sector advertising and from the Kalyon Group's government-contract revenues, giving it an effectively state-aligned funding base.
Affiliation & stance
Daily Sabah is strongly pro-government and pro-AKP/pro-Erdoğan in its editorial line and is routinely described as part of Turkey's 'pool media.' Because it is controlled by a conglomerate closely tied to the ruling party and the president and aligns its coverage accordingly, it is DEPENDENT (government-aligned ownership) — consistent with the site's current guess.
Editorial lean
- Our estimate
- Right
- Measured from coverage
- Centerbased on 416
86/100
Factual
79/100
Objective
697
Articles
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