İbrahim Karagül

İbrahim Karagül (born 1969 in Sinlice, Şalpazarı, Trabzon Province) is a Turkish journalist and a former editor in chief of the newspaper Yeni Şafak.

Education and early life

He attended primary school in Sinlice, secondary education he received in Rize, Ordu and Trabzon. He graduated from the Imam Hatip school in Trabzon. He studied law at the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir.[1] Since his student years, he worked in various media and worked as foreign news editor. He also stayed in Malaysia for a while, and translated a novel of the Malaysian author Shahnon Ahmad into Turkish.[1]

Professional career

Karagül started working in Yeni Şafak in 1995, and is known for his articles and columns focusing on foreign politics. He was appointed as the general editor of TVNET television in 2011.[2] Then in July 2012, Karagül was appointed the editor-in-chief of Yeni Şafak[2] of the Albayrak holding.[3][4] During his tenure the newspaper turned into an outlet which staunchly supported the Turkish Government around Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[5][6][7] His articles are often cited in the international press[8][9][6][10] as he claims that the U.S. attempted to kill the Turkish president Erdoğan[8] supported the Turkish offensive in North-East Syria[9] or accused foreign brokers of leading an attack against Turkey by the means of financial terrorism.[11] He also assumed that Turkey is under attack by the U.S. who allegedly unleashed the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Turkey.[12] During the Nagorno Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenians, he insinuated that missiles should hit the city center of Yerevan "accidentally".[13][14][15][16] Karagül resigned from Yeni Şafak in December 2020.[17]

Controversies

Wild Fire

As in August 2021 he claimed that the Republican Peoples' Party (CHP) and the PKK were behind the raging wild fires, the CHP filed a criminal complaint against him.[18]

The "Jewish Tribe"

On 23 February 2026, Karagül published an article in which he framed Israel and “the Jewish tribe” as a global existential threat. He claims that Israel and "the Jewish tribe" manipulate world events, finance, and conflicts to dominate humanity, alleging that they plan the destruction of entire nations and are "at war with the human race." Karagül described Jews as having "corrupted human genetics" and as a "race at war with all of humanity," and he portrays their statehood as a "seventy-year lie" through which they have created global control networks. He accused Jews of orchestrating war and genocide. Based on this worldview, Karagül advocated stripping Israel of its statehood, disarming it, keeping "Jews away from all areas of power," establishing oversight over its nuclear capabilities, and even considering preventive military action if Israel cannot be contained. He also called for Turkey and other regional powers to acquire nuclear weapons as a deterrent, describing this as a necessary measure to prevent what he claims is an imminent global catastrophe engineered by Jews and Israel.[19]

On a post on X (Formerly Twitter) he declared: "As long as Israel exists in this region, no nation will be safe. Everyone living in this region is obligated to be an enemy of Israel. Jews, in every country where they live, are an internal threat. Turkiye must become a nuclear power immediately. ... Israelis should not be safe in any country."[20]

Personal life

Karagül is married and has two children.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "İbrahim Karagül". www.biyografya.com. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  2. ^ a b "İbrahim Karagül kimdir?". www.haberturk.com (in Turkish). 3 April 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  3. ^ "İbrahim Karagül, Yeni Şafak'taki görevini bıraktı: Başka bir hayatı deneyeceğim". birgun.net (in Turkish). Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Albayrak Group". 20 April 2013. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Editor-in-chief of Turkish AKP mouthpiece: 'Turkey is a global power—now it's time for Azerbaijan to rise'". JNS.org. 8 October 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Erdogan's Turkey is no American ally | AEI". American Enterprise Institute - AEI. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  7. ^ "Prominent Turkish Islamist editor-in-chief stripped of roles". Ahval. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  8. ^ a b "The US tried to kill Erdogan, says editor in chief of Turkish daily". Washington Post. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  9. ^ a b Aykanat, Deniz. "Kriegsjubel und Staatstreue". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  10. ^ Kazim, Hasnain (26 October 2016). "Türkei: Recep Tayyip Erdogan träumt vom Osmanischen Reich". www.spiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  11. ^ Güsten, 09 05 2020 um 12:56 von Susanne (9 May 2020). "Türkei stemmt sich gegen Lira-Fall". Die Presse (in German). Retrieved 19 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ Karagül, Ibrahim. "US is the enemy for Turkey. One day, thousands of people will siege İncirlik as well - İBRAHIM KARAGÜL". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  13. ^ Barsoumian, Nanore (8 October 2020). "Sharp Rise in Hate Speech Threatens Turkey's Armenians". The Armenian Weekly. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  14. ^ Karagül, Ibrahim (27 September 2020). "Tweet of Ibrahim Kargül". Twitter.
  15. ^ SCF (4 December 2020). "Turkey's Armenian community still fears for its safety despite ceasefire in Karabakh". Stockholm Center for Freedom. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  16. ^ TM. "Hawkish rhetoric against Armenia explodes in Turkey as Azerbaijan advances in contested enclave - Turkish Minute". Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  17. ^ "İbrahim Karagül Yeni Şafak'ın başından ayrılıyor". www.gazeteduvar.com (in Turkish). Gazete Duvar. 28 December 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  18. ^ "Criminal complaint against journalist who claimed opposition, PKK started forest fires together". Bianet. 2 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  19. ^ Şafak, Yeni. "Üçüncü Dünya Savaşı'nı engellemek istiyorsanız İsrail'i kontrol altına alın. "Nükleer felaket"i önlemek istiyorsanız "Yahudi Kabilesi"ni kontrol altına alın. İsrail'e "önleyici saldırı" düşünülmeli… | İbrahim Karagül". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 27 February 2026.
  20. ^ "X". 28 February 2026.
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