Radio and Television Supreme Council

A statement issued by Deputy Manager of Corporate Communications Ahter Kutadgu on behalf of Do?an Group is as follows:

1.The news commentary titled "Here are the financiers of betrayal," published by daily Sabah on March 4, 2016, is a new example of distortion in the publishing business. 

The satellite broadcast of IMC TV was blacked out on Feb. 24, following a public prosecutor's demand that its frequency be cut for "making terror organization propaganda."   

"There has been an interruption in the satellite broadcast of IMC TV. The reason has not been clarified yet," the small leftist station said in a tweet.

Measures will be taken in order to ensure that all broadcasts and publications in Turkish media conform to "traditional family values," according to the government's official program for 2016 published at the Official Gazette on Jan. 23. 

Turkey has turned into a country of suicide attacks, killings and massacres. The pressure on those who want to talk about such issues is constantly growing.

The latest instance came after a suicide attack by an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant, who killed at least 10 people on Jan. 12 in Istanbul's historical Sultanahmet neighborhood. 

An Istanbul court imposed a ban on reporting the investigation into the Jan. 12 attack in Turkey's largest city, including "all kinds of news, interviews, criticism and similar publications in print, visual, social media and all kinds of media on the Internet."

Turkey's TV and radio watchdog has fined three private broadcasters for publishing "news contrary to the facts" and for slander against Ayd?n Do?an, the founder and honorary chairman of Do?an Holding, which owns daily Hürriyet.

My show on CNN Türk was fined 37,000 Turkish Liras by the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), by a majority vote. 

The fine was over a program that went on air on Oct. 2 hosting writer Muhsin K?z?lkaya, a deputy of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and journalist Günay Aslan, a member of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). 

It was two years ago when then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an defended the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) model for the Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK). However, this did not happen because it required a constitutional amendment. 

It has not been officially disclosed, but today some are also saying the RTÜK model is being considered for the HSYK.

Turkey's people have been subjected to the one-sided propaganda of both President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu in the run-up to the Nov. 1 elections, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli said Oct. 27 in the northern province of Amasya.

Turkey?s TV and radio watchdog has fined two private broadcasters for publishing ?news contrary to the facts? against Ayd?n Do?an, the founder and honorary chairman of Do?an Holding, which owns daily Hürriyet.