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Radio stations and television broadcasting history date back to the 1920s in Turkey. For approximately 40 years, Turkish channels were only allowed to broadcast under state supervision. During the 1990s, private channels also started broadcasting in Turkey, and their legal status was clarified in the Constitution in 1993. Upon the amendment, the Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council was due to provide channel and broadcasting licences to private and state channels. Around a thousand applications were received and the eligible applicants were licensed by the Supreme Council. Due to changes...

Turkey’s private broadcasting regulator (RTÜK) has ordered the removal of three Iraqi Kurdish TV channels from the Turkish satellite system. It said that the three channels Rudaw, Kurdistan 24 and Waar TV should no longer be available in Turkey. Rudaw was particularly of note because of its perceived close relationship with Massud Barzani. Barzani, a Kurdish politician and president of the autonomous northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan since 13 June 2005, had helped to organise an independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan. Despite being banned by the supreme court of northern Iraq, the referendum...

In March 2017, the Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council released the Annual Report on Turkish Citizens’ Opinions related to Media Services. The Report puts together all feedback or complaints received in 2016 by the Council’s Public Relations services: the call center, the mobile application and the Council’s official website. There were approximately 200 000 elements of feedback related to the TV programmes. This feedback was mostly given by men (59% of all feedback). Between the ages of 21 and 50, several types of feedback were received from different age groups. The feedback was categorized...

Turkey has been in a state of emergency since the attempted military coup that occurred in July 2016. Many Government decrees have been adopted following the event. The Cabinet announced a new Decree consisting of seven chapters and 76 articles. The sixth chapter of the Decree has brought several changes to the Law on the Establishment of Radio and Television Enterprises and their Media Services, which were indicated in five articles. One of the most significant changes is related to the jurisprudence of the Republic of Turkey over the channels that are not located in Turkey, but are broadcast...

On 6 July 2017, the European Parliament adopted a Resolution on the European Commission Report on Turkey, which concerned, among a number of issues, media freedom in Turkey. The new Resolution also concerned the European Parliament’s previous Resolution in October 2016 on the situation of journalists in Turkey (see IRIS 2017-2/4), and follows the adoption of the Report on attacks against journalists and media freedom in Europe by the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) (see IRIS 2017-2/2). The new Resolution begins by...