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ANKA news agency

ANKA News Agency
Founded1972
LanguageTurkish
HeadquartersAnkara, Turkey
Websitewww.ankaajansi.com.tr

ANKA (Turkish: ANKA Haber Ajansı) (formerly Vahit Anka or Vanka) is news agency based in Ankara, Turkey, established in 1972.[1] "Anka" means "phoenix" in Turkish.

History

ANKA was established in 1972 by Altan Öymen. Öymen left ANKA in 1977 to pursue a political career, with Müşerref Hekimoğlu taking over and turning ANKA into a joint stock company.[1] Hekimoğlu led ANKA until 2004.[2]

In 2007 ANKA's offices were broken into and its computer hard drives stolen, after it reported on the ties of Erhan Tuncel (an associate of the assassin of Hrant Dink) to nationalist circles and the fact that Tuncel had been working as a police informer and staff member of the Gendarmerie's intelligence service, JITEM.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b About Us Archived January 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, official site
  2. ^ Bianet, 22 November 2010, Journalist Sevimay Receives Müşerref Hekimoğlu Press Award
  3. ^ AO/EU (2007-02-12). "Suspicious Robbery at ANKA News Agency Bureau". bianet. Retrieved 2008-07-07.

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