The magazine had a liberal and progressive stance during the Ercan Arıklı period[3] and In 1989 it was the highest-circulation news weekly in Turkey, ahead of 2000'e Doğru.

[8] The diary detailed two plans for a military coup, both by the commanders of the army (Aytaç Yalman), navy (Özden Örnek) and the air force (İbrahim Fırtına), together with the gendarmerie chief (Şener Eruygur), and aiming to overthrow the AK Party government in 2004.

[10] In 2007, Nokta published portions of a diary purportedly belonging to the retired admiral Özden Örnek, indicating that three coup plans were prepared: Sarıkız (blonde girl; idiomatic for 'cow'), Ayışığı (moonlight), and Eldiven (glove).

[14] For his part, general Hurşit Tolon said he found no reason to object to the publication of the diaries since it contained no false statements about him.

The minutes were found in the home of retired captain Muzaffer Yıldırım who, along with Tolon and Eruygur, was detained in the frame of an investigation into a conspiratorial organization named "Ergenekon".

[16] These excerpts were later cited as key evidence in the March 2009 indictment of a round of suspects, including retired generals Eruygur and Tolon, arrested in the course of the ongoing investigations into the alleged illegal Ergenekon organization and charged with plotting to overthrow the legal government of the Republic of Turkey.

Murat Capan, responsible editor-in-chief of Nokta magazine, went to Greece on May 24, 2017, two days after his 22.5-year prison sentence and applied for asylum.

In addition, the Greek Human Rights Association filed a criminal complaint against the police officers who sent Murat Capan back despite his asylum.

[18] In May 2017, the last editor-in-chief Murat Çapan was sentenced to over 22 years in jail for allegedly "inciting an armed uprising against the Turkish government" and was arrested while attempting to flee to neighboring Greece.