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{{Infobox newspaper
|name                 = BirGün
|logo                 = BirGün logo.svg
|logo_size            = 175px
|type                 = Daily newspaper
|format               = Broadsheet
|publisher            = Birgün Yayıncılık ve İletişim Tic. A.Ş.
|chiefeditor          = Berkant Gültekin, Can Uğur
|foundation           = {{Start date|2004|04|14|df=yes}}
|political            = [[Left-wing politics|Left-wing]]
|language             = [[Turkish language|Turkish]]
|headquarters         = [[Beyoğlu]], [[Istanbul]]
|circulation = 32,423 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.medyatava.com/tiraj|title=Tiraj - MedyaTava - Yazmadıysa Doğru Değildir|date=7 March 2016|access-date=23 February 2013|archive-date=25 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325184913/http://www.medyatava.com/tiraj|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|website              = {{URL|http://www.birgun.net/}}
}}

'''''BirGün''''' (''One Day'') is an [[Istanbul]]-based [[Turkey|Turkish]] [[left-wing]] daily.

The paper was founded in 2004 by a group of Turkish intellectuals. The most important point of the newspaper is that it is not owned by any parent company or conglomerate.

Since its foundation, the newspaper had to face serious pressures from publishing trusts, mainly to affiliated with [[Doğan Media Group]] that owns the vast majority of the market. Whereas most of the newspapers in [[Turkey]] pay paper and publishing cost as installments, ''BirGün'' had to pay in cash. In order to afford the costs, the newspaper first launched a subscription campaign, then raised its price to 0.75&nbsp;[[Turkish lira|TL]]. The price was 1 TL in 2012 and 1,5 TL in Summer 2015 while also costs 40 [[kuruş]] (0,4 TL) on [[universities in Turkey]]. ''BirGün'' 's sales have tripled since 2013, especially after the [[Gezi protests]], reaching 25,000 copies. [[Hrant Dink]], who was murdered in 2007, was also one of ''BirGün'' 's writers.

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Most of the ''BirGün'' columnists are members or sympathizers of the socialist [[Left Party (Turkey)|Left Party]] (SOL), formerly known as the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP), which is a member of [[Party of the European Left]] and one of the founders of [[European Anti-Capitalist Left]].

==Columnists==
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* [[Ataol Behramoğlu]]
* [[Korkut Boratav]]
* {{Interlanguage link multi|Şeyhmus Diken|tr}}
* [[Hrant Dink]]
* {{Interlanguage link multi|Hayri Kozanoğlu|tr}}
* [[Fikri Sağlar]]
* [[Süreyya Evren]]
* {{Interlanguage link multi|Tarık Günersel|tr}}
* [[Zeynep Kuray]]
* [[Sabri Kuşkonmaz]]
* [[Oğuzhan Müftüoğlu]]
* [[Sırrı Süreyya Önder]]
* [[Ece Temelkuran]]
* [[Güven Gürkan Öztan]]
* {{Interlanguage link multi|Oğuz Oyan|tr}}
* {{Interlanguage link multi|Timur Soykan|tr}}
* {{Interlanguage link multi|Merdan Yanardağ|tr}}

== References ==
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==External links==
*{{official|http://www.birgun.net/ }} {{in lang|tr}}
*[http://www.birgun.net/writer_index.php BirGün Columnists]

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