10 TV Stations Taken over by State Management in Two Years in Turkey
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Some continued to broadcast, others changed their programming or were put up for sale, while in some cases the broadcast was interrupted.
With the appointment of a trustee to Halk TV, the number of television channels in Türkiye that have had their management handed over to trustees in the last 20 months has reached 10. Following these decisions, which caused widespread repercussions in the media sector, the issue of broadcasting organizations with appointed trustees has once again come to the forefront.
The opposition Halk TV was the tenth station to come under state control in the last two years, with Erdogan "torn paper" on freedom of speech, expression and information.
State centralization in the media sector prevails in Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkey. A total of ten television stations in the country have come under his control... The article Tayyip Erdogan is silencing every free voice – He nationalized 10 television stations in 2 years was published in NewsIT.
A total of ten television stations in Turkey have come under the control of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the last two years.
Ten Turkish channels have been placed under the control of the state-owned TMSF in the last two years due to investigations into financial crimes. Among them is the opposition Halk TV, with a new administrator, Ibrahim Pasali.
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