Radio and Television Supreme Council

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has condemned the state of emergency decree stating that the Supreme Election Board (YSK) will cease monitoring private TV channels during Turkey's upcoming referendum campaign on constitutional changes.

Turkey's Supreme Election Board (YSK) will cease monitoring private TV channels during campaigns of the upcoming referendum, according to a state of emergency decree published in the Official Gazette early on Feb. 9. The new regulation states that private channels will not have to broadcast in accordance with YSK rules. 

The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has introduced new measures limiting broadcasting after terror attacks. 

In a meeting with representatives of broadcasters on Feb. 1, RTÜK gave information on broadcasting bans introduced with state of emergency decrees and the measures it will take if the rules are broken. 

An explosion has occurred in front of the entrance Erciyes University in Turkey's central province of Kayseri early on Dec. 17.

There were wounded people according to initial reports, Turkish broadcaster CNN Türk has reported.

Ambulances were sent to the area after the explosion.

At least 37 were killed while 125 wounded people were hospitalized after an explosion hit central Ankara on March 13, Health Minister Mehmet Müezzino?lu has said in a press conference. 

A bomb-laden car caused the blast, Interior Minister Efkan Ala said at the same conference after a security meeting in Ankara. 

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. 

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.