Penguen was founded in 2002 by
Metin Üstündağ,
Selçuk Erdem,
Erdil Yaşaroğlu and
Bahadır Baruter. The first issue was published in September 2002. In March 2005
Penguen was sued by Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for several caricatures of him; the magazine was acquitted. In 2011 contributor Bahadır Baruter "faced a one-year prison sentence for a cartoon that [had] the words “There is no God, religion is a lie” on the wall of a mosque." In May 2012 its offices were the subject of an
arson attack. In 2015, two journalists from the magazine were given 11-month prison sentences for comments about Prime Minister Erdoğan. In April 2017 it was announced that
Penguen would be closed after four issues. ==References==