Today's Zaman, which has its headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey's biggest city, is published by the moderate Islamist Zaman media group. Zaman means "time" in Turkish.

The 28-page color broadsheet, whose front-page logo reads, "Your way of understanding Turkey," will compete with two other English-language dailies, the Istanbul-based Turkish Daily News and the Ankara-based New Anatolian.

Turkey's troubled bid to join the European Union and its efforts to act as a bridge between East and West has recently increased international interest in this mainly Muslim but secular country.

The foreign business community, concentrated in Istanbul, has grown in recent years; Turkey's second and third largest cities, Ankara and Izmir, are also home to flourishing foreign communities and thousands of foreigners have settled on Turkey's Mediterranean and Aegean coasts.

Güncelleme Tarihi: 20 Eylül 2018, 18:16