Penguen () was a satirical magazine published in Turkey and distributed also to Northern Cyprus.
History and profile Penguen was founded in 2002 by Metin Üstündağ, Selçuk Erdem, Erdil Yaşaroğlu and Bahadır Baruter.Fazıla Mat, 8 April 2010, balcanicaucaso.org, Turkish humor The first issue was published in September 2002.
In March 2005 Penguen was sued by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for several caricatures of him;Bianet, 25 March 2005, Magazine Sued for Erdogan Caricatures the magazine was acquitted.US State Dept, 11 March 2008, 2007 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Turkey In 2011 contributor Bahadır Baruter "faced a one-year prison sentence for a cartoon that [had] the words “There is no God, religion is a lie” on the wall of a mosque."Freedom House, Freedom of the Press 2012 - Turkey
In May 2012 its offices were the subject of an arson attack.CNN Turk, 18 May 2012, Penguen'deki yangın kundaklamaymış In 2015, two journalists from the magazine were given 11-month prison sentences for comments about Prime Minister Erdoğan. In April 2017 it was announced that Penguen would be closed after four issues. In a statement, journalists cited the decline in people reading magazines, and the lack of "free space" for journalists in Turkey. The last issue of the magazine was published in May 2017.
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