Cumhuriyet is the oldest up-market Turkish daily newspaper. Headquartered in Istanbul, the newspaper also has offices in Ankara and İzmir.Established on 7 May 1924 by journalist Yunus Nadi Abalıoglu, a confidant of the Turkish Republic's founder Ataturk, the newspaper has subscribed to a staunchly secular, republican course. In the past closely affiliated with the Kemalist Republican People's Party(CHP), the center-left newspaper turned to a more independent course over time, advocating democracy, social liberal values, and free markets.In 2015 it was awarded the Freedom of Press Prize by international NGO Reporters Without Borders for making a stand against the government's mounting pressure.Shortly thereafter, Cumhuriyet's editor-in-chief Can Dundar and the newspaper's Ankara representative Erdem Gul was arrested facing sentences up to life imprisonment. During the last decade, the newspaper's staff has also been physically attacked, with the 2008 Molotov attack against Cumhuriyet's headquarters in Istanbul's Şişli district being particularly significant. By the end of 2016, almost half of the paper's reporters, columnists and executives had been jailed by the Erdogan government.