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The Turkish Radio and Television Supervisory Authority (RTÜK) has issued private Turkish television station ATV with a one-day broadcasting ban because it broadcast Pokemon films. The decision was taken on the grounds that the films contained violent scenes, which could be harmful to children. It followed an incident when a four-year old Turkish boy jumped from the seventh floor of a building and broke his leg. He later said that he had wanted to fly like a Pokemon. The Turkish Ministry of Health had already announced before the ban was imposed that it considered the cartoons to be dangerous...

In a judgment of 10 0ctobre 2000 the European Court of Human Rights (first section) has held in the case of Akkoç v. Turkey that a disciplinary sanction because of an interview published in a newspaper, was not in breach of Article 10 of the Convention. The applicant, a former teacher, received a disciplinary punishment in 1994 for a statement made to the press in which she declared that at a meeting some teachers were assaulted by the police. In 1998, however, the Supreme Administrative Court decided that the disciplinary sanction was unlawful. In 1999 the Administrative Court adopted the...

On 27 January 2000, a new autonomous body responsible for the regulation of the telecommunications market was established according to Law No 4502 (published in the Official Gazette of 29 January 2000, No 23948). The new Telecommunications Council will replace the Wireless General Directorate, which will continue its work until the establishment of its successor is complete and the necessary regulations have been prepared. The work of the new Telecommunications Council will be to regulate the market for value added telecommunications services such as cable TV, mobile telephones, data systems, and...

Digital concept studies that were commenced in 1998 on the initiative of the Radio and Television Supreme Council (Supreme Council) in consultation with the relevant public authorities have outlined the framework plan for digital broadcasting in Turkey. The Supreme Council Decision of 3 November 1999 ("Decision") states that Turkey's technical infrastructure is able to deploy digital satellite and digital cable broadcasting starting by the year 2000. The Decision asserts that T-DAB and DVB-T broadcast need frequency planning and that this planning will be completed within the year 2000. Hence,...

In order to protest against a decision of the high council for audio-visual matters (RTUK), several Turkish TV stations and producers have announced a temporary suspension of their programmes in early November. This decision was a reaction to a sanction pronounced by the council ordering the private TV station "D" to stop its operations for one day. The authority had ruled at the beginning of the week that the station had broadcast "offending and insidious" comments in a report on a female minister. A comic actor had made fun of the lacking sexual experience of the minister during a programme for...