It supports the reunification of Cyprus and espouses left-wing values, being characterised in scholarship as radical left.

[5][6] On 29 December 1999, the newspaper was fined 120 billion Turkish liras (TL) as a result of lawsuits filed by Denktaş.

[8] On 12 December 2001, all property in the newspaper's offices was confiscated and all income that would be generated from sales was seized through the distributing company YAYSAT.

In addition, Levent claimed that some members of his journalistic team had been "taken to some place" and threatened by a group that called itself the "National People's Movement".

[7] On November 6, 2004, the newspaper's office was attacked by a crowd of 60 Turkish nationalists because of its support for the recently failed Annan Plan.