The number of newspapers and magazines in Turkey increased by 7.2 percent in 2009 when compared to the previous year.

Turkey's Statistical Body, TurkStat, announced a bulletin on "Written Media Statistics 2009" on Friday.

According to the bulletin, there were 6,073 newspapers and magazines in Turkey in 2009.

57.1 percent of all publications were magazines.

90.9 percent of all newspapers published in Turkey in 2009 were local newspapers while 2.8 percent were regional and 6.3 percent national.

37 percent of all magazines published in Turkey in 2009 were local while 8 percent were regional and 55 percent were national.


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