ANKA was established in 1972 by
Altan Öymen. Öymen left ANKA in 1977 to pursue a political career, with
Müşerref Hekimoğlu taking over and turning ANKA into a joint stock company. Hekimoğlu led ANKA until 2004. In 2007 ANKA's offices were broken into and its computer hard drives stolen, after it reported on the ties of Erhan Tuncel (an associate of the assassin of
Hrant Dink) to nationalist circles and that Tuncel had been working as a police informer and staff member of the
Gendarmerie's intelligence service,
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