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AI in Turkey's news media

12 verified, source-linked AI implementations across 10 news organizations, 2018–2026.
Europe and Central Asia2018–2026
Cases
12
Organizations
10
Active since
2018
Controversies
2
Compared with the global pattern, Content Production & Automation accounts for 50% of cases here against 14% worldwide.

What AI is used for — and how that differs

Turkeyworldwide sharepp = percentage-point difference
Content Production & Automation6+36pp
AI Avatars / Synthetic Presenters2+14pp
Verification & Fact-Checking2+9pp
Audience Experience & Personalisation1+1pp
AI Ethics & Editorial Policy1+4pp

How far adoption has gone

1 – Access2
2 – Adoption8
3 – Proficiency2
4 – Ways of Working0
5 – Reorganizing0

Who is adopting

Funding: Own budget (10), Media dev org (1), Tech company (Google/GNI) (1)

Notable cases

2025Yaşar Üniversitesi 4YU Haber Bülteni

AIsu Bilge — an AI news anchor created by Yaşar University's Media Relations Coordination Office to present the institution's 4YU News Bulletin. In June 2025 the anchor was also turned into teaching material: students on the Vocational School's Public Relations and Promotion programme built a digital newspaper as the final project for their Basic Journalism course, and one of them, Eylül Buse Öntürk, interviewed…

AI Avatars / Synthetic Presenters2 – Adoption
AIsu Bilge — in-house AI news anchor; green-screen compositing for the student interviewSource →

2023Serbestiyet

Senai Bilir" AI opinion columnist — GPT-4-generated column text produced by editor Ziyahan Albeniz using contextual prompts; DALL-E used to generate columnist's headshot; editor reviews and publishes output; intended to offer perspectives free from self-censorship or political pressure

Content Production & Automation2 – Adoption⚑ controversy
GPT-4 (Microsoft Edge)Source →

2026Teyit

IPI Global AI Accelerator 2026 — leveraging AI to further drive capacity to verify and communicate fact-checked information; one of 15 global newsrooms selected from 205 applications

Verification & Fact-Checking1 – Access
AI fact-checking capacity tools (in development)Source →

2018Şalom Gazetesi

Published an AI-written news piece (Articoolo-generated text translated via Google Translate, published without editorial intervention per article note)

Content Production & Automation1 – Access
Articoolo;" Google TranslateSource →

2023Dipnot.tv

Self-described fully AI-based news platform; AI-powered news summaries and production stack with partner tooling

Content Production & Automation3 – Proficiency
Custom AI stack (Roide + Matnon;" platform-declared)Source →

2024Turizm World Media

Künye lists "Sanal Haber Editörü: Sofia Vox; numerous site stories are bylined to Sofia Vox as AI journalist persona

Content Production & Automation3 – Proficiency
AI virtual editor persona (Sofia Vox)Source →

Elsewhere in Europe and Central Asia

Albania 4Armenia 7Austria 22Azerbaijan 1Belarus 5Belgium 25Bosnia and Herzegovina 3Bulgaria 6Croatia 5Cyprus 1Czech Republic 24Denmark 27
Data from J·Index, the Journalism AI Index — every case verified against a published source. See the methodological note for how cases are collected and coded. Updated 2026-07-23.