“By continuing our good partnership with Quark and upgrading to QuarkXPress 7 we can leverage the skills of our team and don’t need costly new training.”

Dogan Gazetecilik A.S., one of the leading newspaper companies in Turkey, has decided to continue its successful newspaper production with QuarkXPress. Dogan Gazetecilik holds 23 percent market share in the Turkish newspaper market in terms of circulation, and 44 percent in terms of reach.

The company publishes daily newspapers such as the political daily Milliyet, which was founded 1950 and is one of the four best selling newspapers in Turkey with a highly influential reader profile. Following international principles of publishing and incorporating high ethical standards, Milliyet is Turkey’s undisputed champion regarding reliability. Other daily newspapers published by Dogan Gazetecilik are Radikal, Fanatik, and Posta. Along with extensive coverage of the economy, foreign affairs and politics, business, culture, and arts, liberal Radikal features articles by some of the country's most respected academics. The newspaper closely follows current global news and includes important editorials from around the world. Fanatik is a pioneering, sports-only newspaper with an emphasis on football (soccer), and Posta, with its easy-to-read style, is the company’s mass-market paper and Turkey’ s best selling daily newspaper.

The implementation of QuarkXPress at Dogan Gazetecilik follows an update of the entire IT environment. Elma Bilgisayar Ltd., provider of integration services to Dogan Gazetecilik since 1990, assisted with the upgrade process to QuarkXPress and redesigning workflows.

 “Our editorial and graphic design staff has gained a lot of experience with QuarkXPress throughout the years. By continuing our good partnership with Quark and upgrading to QuarkXPress we can leverage the skills of our team and don’t need costly new training,” said Yucel Okan Senturk, Technology Director at Dogan Gazetecilik. “We appreciate the Turkish language support of QuarkXPress as well as the possibility to generate PDF files directly from the application without using any other PDF generator product. Furthermore, Composition Zones will help us streamline our processes. Our users’ productivity is enhanced due to new imaging features otherwise implemented through products like Photoshop.”

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