Zekeriya Sertel, known as Mehmet Zekeriya Sertel, was a Turkish journalist.
12 Facts About Zekeriya Sertel
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Zekeriya Sertel is the first director of state press department and founder and editor of various periodicals.
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Zekeriya Sertel was born in Ustrumca, Macedonia, Ottoman Empire, in 1890.
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Zekeriya Sertel established a satirical magazine, Diken, together with Sedat Simavi in 1918.
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Zekeriya Sertel was the cofounder and first editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet newspaper.
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Zekeriya Sertel cofounded with other three journalists a newspaper named Son Posta in 1930.
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Sabiha and Zekeriya Sertel were among the owners of another newspaper, Tan which was published from 1935 to 1945.
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In 1919 Zekeriya Sertel was first arrested and detained by the Ottoman authorities due to his articles in Buyuk Mecmua which criticised the occupation of Istanbul by the British and other western forces.
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Zekeriya Sertel was tried in the Independence Courts which resulted in his three-year imprisonment immediately after the start of weekly magazine Resimli Persembe in 1925.
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Zekeriya Sertel's trial was in March 1946 due to his writings in Tan.
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Zekeriya Sertel had a daughter with who he left Baku for France following the death of his wife.
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Zekeriya Sertel died in Salpetriere Hospital, Paris, on 12 March 1980.