Uygur created the talk show The Young Turks with the goal of starting a moderate liberal political and entertainment show. It launched on 13 February 2002. It later became a success online, and aired on the Sirius Satellite Radio network. The Young Turks claims to be the first Internet video news show and states that it is now the largest online news show in the world. Collectively it has amassed over 850,000,000 views on YouTube. Video of the show is streamed daily on its website and is available as a podcast. The show takes its name from the Young Turks which were a secularist Turkish nationalist reform party in the early twentieth century responsible for ethnic cleansing of Armenians and other Christians in the Ottoman Empire.
On September 20, 2011, Current TV announced that The Young Turks would launch a weeknight TV edition of the show at 7 p.m. EST (M-F) on the network beginning sometime in the fourth quarter of 2011. According to the show's website, the show is introduced as The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur to differentiate itself from the popular web series.
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