Türkçe Gündem: An independent newsroom with AI editorial tools
Built from scratch for the Turkish-speaking diaspora — ad-light, multilingual and AI-assisted.
Challenge
Turkish-speaking readers in Europe sit between three worlds: local news in the host language, Turkish-language outlets with editorial bias, and social feeds with no verification. There was no independent, ad-light platform that explained European topics in Turkish — and did so with editorial discipline.
Solution
Türkçe Gündem is its own product end to end. The backend ingests sources, an LLM pipeline translates, summarises, deduplicates and classifies entries by region, topic and trust score. A semantic vector search surfaces related stories beyond simple tagging. The newsroom receives AI suggestions — but the final publish is always a human decision. The stack is deliberately lean: Next.js edge rendering, EU hosting, an ad-light UI.
Technologies
Results
In-house translation & summarisation pipeline on LLMs
Semantic search instead of plain tag-matching
Editorial human-in-the-loop on every publish
EU hosting, ad-light UI, edge-cached for fast loads