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Penguen (English: Penguin) was a satirical magazine published in Turkey and distributed also to Northern Cyprus.

Penguen was founded in 2002 by Metin Üstündağ, Selçuk Erdem, Erdil Yaşaroğlu and Bahadır Baruter.^[1] The first issue was published in September 2002.^[2]

In March 2005 Penguen was sued by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for several caricatures of him;^[3] the magazine was acquitted.^[4] 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."^[5]

In May 2012 its offices were the subject of an arson attack.^[6] In 2015, two journalists from the magazine were given 11-month prison sentences for comments about Prime Minister Erdoğan.^[7] In April 2017 it was announced that Penguen would be closed after four issues.^[2] In a statement, journalists cited the decline in people reading magazines, and the lack of "free space" for journalists in Turkey.^[7] The last issue of the magazine was published in May 2017.^[8]

• Official website
• Media related to Penguen at Wikimedia Commons