diff --git a/recipes/cumhuriyet.recipe b/recipes/cumhuriyet.recipe
index 6b706c0f07..60d3c8e06c 100644
--- a/recipes/cumhuriyet.recipe
+++ b/recipes/cumhuriyet.recipe
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 class Cumhuriyet(BasicNewsRecipe):
     title = 'Cumhuriyet'
-    __author__ = 'ims'
     description = 'News from Turkey'
     language = 'tr'
     publisher = 'Cumhuriyet'